Biography
Bole Butake was born in 1947 in Nkor Noni, Northwest Province of Cameroon. A poet and playwright, he is well known for the agitprop nature of his work and writing on issues of corruption and governance, as well as his contribution to the arts and culture in Cameroon. He received his BA in Modern English Letters from the University of Yaoundé and his MA in English Literature from the University of Leeds. He also earned his PhD in 1983 from the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, University of Yaoundé. Butake continued to become a professor of Performing Arts and African Literature at the University of Yaoundé until he retired in 2012. He died in 2016 in Yaoundé, Central Province, Cameroon.
Poetry Collections
The Rape of Michelle, (Yaounde, CEPER, 1984;)
Lake God (Yaounde, BET & Co (Pub) Ltd., 1986).
The Survivors (Yaounde, Editions SOPECAM, 1989);
And Palm-wine Will Flow (Yaounde, Editions SOPECAM, 1990);
Zintgraff and the Battle of Manko. (Bamenda, Patron Publishing House, 2003);
Family Saga. (Yaounde, Editions CLE (2005);
Betrothal Without Libation. (Yaounde, Editions CLE. 2005);
Cameroon Anthology of Poetry. Yaounde, Africana Publications (2010).
