Emmanuel Fru Doh

Biography

Emmanuel Fru Doh was born in 1960 in British Southern Cameroon. His first poetry collection, Not Yet Damascus, was published in 2007. He’s also the author of Oriki’badan (2009) and Shadows (2011). His work is known to address the socio-political state of affairs on the African continent and also draw attention to the exploitation and control of Cameroon under imperialism. He went to the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, for his BA (Hons) in English (1984), MA in English Literature (1987), and PhD in English (1990). Fru Doh currently teaches in the Department of English at Century College, Minnesota, where he is also associate editor of Phantasmagora.

Birth Date

1960-01-01

Place of Birth

British, Southern Cameroonian, American

Country of Nationality

Cameroon

Languages Spoken

Mankon, Pidgin, English, French

University of Ibadan, University of Ibadan, University of Ibadan

Poetry Collections

In the Color of My Skin (Langaa, Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, 2017); Before the Rainbow. (Langaa, Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, 2014); Shadows. (Langaa, Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, 2011); Oriki’badan. (Langaa, Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, 2009); Not Yet Damascus. (Langaa, Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, 2007); Wading the Tide (Patron Publishing House. Bamenda, 1995); Wading the Tide, (Kola Press, Bellingham WA, USA, 1998); Wading the Tide, (Langaa, Mankon-Bamenda, 2009).

Sources

"Emmanuel Fru Doh." African Books Collective, www.africanbookscollective.com/authors-editors/emmanuel-fru-doh. Accessed 11 April 2022.
 
Nji, Tem Edwin, and Collins Amara Nnyigide. "The Center-Margin Dialectics in the Poetry of Emmanuel Fru Doh and Bill F. Ndi." The International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, vol. 6, no. 4, 2019. Accessed 11 April 2022.