The Post’s managing editor joins poets’ club

From Mua Patrick in Buea

The managing editor of one of Cameroon’s leading English Language newspapers, The Post, has released a 62-page poetry book titled: “ Lines of Times”. Bouddih Adams’ Lines of Times was launched on July 11, 2014 at the CNPS hall in Buea.

Bouddih Adams

Lines of Times, it should be noted, is a collection of poems which spans across many spheres in life including politics, economics and social-cultural realms, human relationships. It equally transcends into the deeds and misdeeds of humanity while evoking debates in the public space and at the same time crusading for a sane and safe society.

Speaking at the launching ceremony, the chairman of the occasion, popular Cameroonian movie actor, Otia Vitalis and the book reviewer, Toh Sylvester of the University of Buea in separate remarks hailed the journalist-poet for daring into a venture like poetry which they described as challenging.

The reviewer said poetry is an important way of passing on a message to the society whose impact, he sustained, needs no emphasis. To the chairman, the initiative by Bouddih Adams was worth emulating. He said anything put into writing will live on and be of use to future generations.

The collection of over 60 poems is published by ANUCAM publishers. Among some of the heart-rendering poems are: “O’ Land of My Kin, Men Not Enough, Come Again Christ, Birds Of a Feather Prey Together, Break The Silence-sister Sawe, Kungi: Land of heroes, Mighty Mt Cameroon and if the Mungo Bridges No More”.

Henry K. Jick of the department of English, University of Buea in a statement said: “Lines of Times” typifies the crossing of borders, language, geography and culture as well as the examination of the permeable frontier between the world of things and deeds and the world of the imagination.

Poet’s bio data

Born in 1965 in Kungi, Donga Matung division in the North West region, Bouddih Adams attended Presbyterian Primary School Nkambe and later GHS Nkambe and CCC Kumba. He obtained his Advanced Level at Nacho High School Bamenda. From Nacho, Bouddih Adams moved to neighboring Nigeria where he later read Journalism and English at the University of Lagos.

He returned to the country in 1989 and published booklets like: “The Urgent Need For a Federation, “The Betrayed Country and “Citizens In Tears”. He fled the country several times including during the period of the state of emergency that was declared in the then North West province in 1992. He is equally the author of a yet to be published book titled: “Self Actualization”. Bouddih Adams is currently working on what he calls: “Green Poetry”, a publication with focus on nature protection.

To note, Bouddih Adams is one of the Founding Editors of The Post newspaper where is currently the managing editor.