Buried Before Death

Apart from demonstrating skilful use of stylistics through his blend of a typical African society with a regrettably savage modern one, Chiaboh’s Buried Before Death outstandingly depicts a world where the moral depravity of an individual cum a rotten system of governance characterised by nepotism, marginalisation and a failed form of education does not only affect the life of an individual, but puts a family and an entire community through seven years of excruciating pain and emotional suspense. 

Tem Albert Chi
Literary Critic 
 Dean of Studies, New Century Institute of Learning

Buried Before Death is another outburst of creative activity in Anglophone Cameroon literature. Chiaboh artistically captures the harrowing experiences of another pariah in far - away Ednuoaya. Bam leaves his native village of Huba with hopes of returning shoulders high but the indignities of marginalisation transform him into a lost sheep. Chiaboh projects that the plight of the minority is one that 
must be given due attention, otherwise the entire system will crumble.  

Christopher K. Anyam

Writer and critic 
The University of Yaoundé I

Chiaboh Fidelis Fumbui is a PhD research student in the English Department of the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences of the University of Yaoundé 1. His research interest is multicultural literature as he explores the dynamics of cultural pluralism and how these diverse cultures are portrayed in contemporary literatures. He was formerly Boarding Master in Fundong Anglo-Saxon Boarding School (FAC) and later on Discipline Master in Chuo Bilingual Comprehensive High School - Yaoundé. Chiaboh has also served as a teacher of literature in English and English Language in many secondary schools in Yaoundé including C.B.C.C – Carriere, Christ Winners’ Academy – Mbankolo, Les Armandins – Nkomkana where he won the Principal’s 2017-2018 Best Teacher Award, Saint Marcellin Bilingual Academy – Carriere, Fondation Marguerite Marquez – Ngoussou, Complexe Scolaire Bilingue Esperance (C.S.B.E) – Min-prix Bastos and New Century Institute of Learning (NCIL), Ebogo – Soa where he is currently serving as HOD for English language and literature in English. He is author of A Concise Analysis of Ordinary Level Poetry (2017), A Visionary Approach to Ordinary Level Literature in English (2018), Who Got Bih Pregnant (2019) and Neglected Generation (2021).

Pages: 123

Year: 2021

ISBN: ISBN: 978-9956 -454-88-4