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EduArt Inc Literature Awards NIGHT

EduART INC USA Presents PIONEER EduART AWARDS NIGHT

An Exclusive Black Tie Event!

Wine, dine and relax with great minds

Where: Capitol Hotel, Buea, Cameroon

When: July 18th 2008 from 6pm

Highlights of the Evening:

• Key note address by Prof. Shadrack Ambanasom, leading Cameroon literary critic.
• Exquisite Cameroon cuisine
• A toast to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart @ 50
• Music legend, François Misse Ngoh
• Special guest- Prof. Niyi Osundare, award winning Nigerian Poet
• Dramatic Performance by Joyce Ashuntantang, Donatus Fai and co.
• Free Souvenirs for all guests
• Awards galore: recognizing our own!
• Book launch: Their Champaign Party will End (poems in honor of Bate Besong)

Minimum Donations: 10.000 CFA

Promote our writers! They tell our stories for posterity

RSVP by July 10th 2008, Space is limited. (We must know you are coming!)

EduArt Secretariat: 7725-3100 or 9990-3058. Email: Eduartinc@yahoo.com

Sponsors:

Dr. Bertrand Fote
Kham Inc, USA
Jimbi Media, USA
African-writing.com, UK
Presbook, Cameroon
Langaa Publishers, Cameroon
Summit Magazine, Cameroon.
Successstorymagazine.info, Cameroon.
Amity Law Firm, Buea Cameroon.

Dr. Aning Akwasi, USA

Dr. Bertrand Fote

Dr. Prince Boakye

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EduArt Awards for Literature- Results

The 2007 EduArt Awards for Cameroonian Literature written in English have been released. The Bate Besong award for poetry published in 2006 was highly contested and the winner is John Ngong Kum for his poetry collection Walls of Agony. The chief judge, renowned poet and Distinguished Professor, Tanure Ojaide of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, holds that:

Ngong’s Walls of Agony is superior in its use of English and poetic language. It has consistency of imagery in the symbolic “wall” that permeates the poet’s vision of life, society, and politics as he explores personal and public concerns. ..Ngong also has a strong sense of form, which shows on the pages of his book. Most of the poems are in regular stanza and that gives the impression of organization and good craftsmanship. There is a sense of evenness in his work. As they stand, Ngong’s Walls of Agony is the best in language, unified vision, and form. He deserves the poetry prize.” Prof. Ojaide also commended the runners up, Mathew Takwi for his collection On their Knees and Kamara Kimvala’s (A. F. Ndangam) Tears of Rage and described both volumes as exuberant.

EduART AWARDS FOR LITERATURE

EduART Inc has launched three annual awards for literature written in English by Cameroonians and published in Cameroon or any African country. These awards are:

Victor E. Musinga Award for Drama
Jane and Rufus Blanshard Award for fiction and
Bate Besong Award for Poetry

There are at present no annual awards for literature in Anglophone Cameroon. EduArt hopes that these awards will encourage not only the production of more creative writing but equally boost publishing in Cameroon.  These are people's choice awards which means the winning entries will be selected by a cross section of the reading public and not only by literary experts.

Click here for complete details about the eduART Literary Awards (PDF format)

For more information contact eduartinc@yahoo.com or call 237 788 30 53.

EduArt Awards Eligibility and Registration Form

ELIGIBILITY RULES

There is no restriction on setting, theme or mode. EduArt accepts any fictional work which falls in any of the categories below:

1. Fiction (Novel or collection of short stories - Non-fiction books are not eligible for these Awards)
2. Drama
3. Collection of poetry

To be eligible for the 2007 award, the work must meet the following criteria:.