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Kenjo Jumbam

Died in 2005

Kenjo wan Jumbam was born in Nso country, in the English-speaking north-west of Cameroon. A postgraduate student at Leeds, in England, he sent Heinemann a first manuscript, a love story, which the firm turned down; in 1975 it accepted a book of two tales for young readers. His books were afterwards read as far afield as the schools of northern Nigeria and East Africa. Retired to his native country, he died there in 2005, leaving, according to Joyce Ashuntantang, numerous manuscripts which the withdrawal of the British publishers from the continent had deprived of readers.

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