Sankie Maimo

Sankie Maimo was a writer from British Southern Cameroons. Maimo moved to Ibadan, Nigeria, where he worked as a school teacher. There, he founded the journal Cameroon Voice in 1955. This was followed by a play called I Am Vindicated, and a children's book called Adventuring with Jaja. His works advocated for the adoption of European values as a means to bring Africa into the wider world.^[1]

Bibliography

• I Am Vindicated. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1959.
• Sov-Mbang the Soothsayer. Yaounde: Editions Cle, 1968.
• Twilight Echoes. Yaounde: Cowrie Publications, 1979.
• The Mask. Yaounde: Cowrie Publications, 1980.
• Succession in Sarkov. Yaounde: SOPECAM, 1986.
• Sasse Symphony. Limbe: Nooremac Press, 1989.
• Retributive Justice or “La Shivaa.” Kumbo: Maimo, 1999.

Notes

1. Mbaku 80–1.

References

• Mbaku, John Mukum (2005). Culture and Customs of Cameroon. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.