Johnnie MacViban

Johnnie MacViban (born 1955) is a Cameroonian journalist, poet and novelist educated in the International School of Journalism and the International Communication Institute, Montreal (Canada).

Life and career As a news analyst, he has worked with Cameroon Tribune and Cameroon Radio Television and was incarcerated on 26 July 1986 alongside Sam Nuvalla Fonkem and Ebssy Ngum for airing over the radio a story on multi-party politics titled The Enemies of Democracy on Cameroon Calling. They were later released five months later in November of the same year.

In 1994, he won the Editor’s Choice Award in Poetry for the National Library of Poetry and his novel A Ripple from Abakwa was shortlisted for EduART's Jane and Rufus Blanshard Award for fiction.