Dance of the Vampires and Six Other Plays

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“Bole Butake will be remembered for starting The Mould, a literary magazine considered as a nursery for budding University students with a creative instinct. Although nobody has become a Nobel laureate from that nursery, it undoubtedly contributed enormously in enriching the Anglophone Literature that we have today. A Fonlonian disciple, Butake insisted that teaching Literature, ultimately, was futile if it did not lead to making the student, herself, a producer and not only a consumer of literary classics. Buoyed by this conviction, Butake, alongside Hanzel Ndumbe Eyoh, created the Flame Players, a drama troupe at UniYao. Over the years, they staged and thrilled Anglophone drama a�icionados. […] His numerous ordeals notwithstanding, Butake has been an outstanding scholar, a genuine intellectual, a path-�inding playwright and a gad�ly for an anaesthetised society.” Francis Wache, Editor-in-Chief, The Post, Cameroon This crowning collection brings together seven of Bole Butake’s �inest plays since 1984, namely: D���� �� ��� V�������; F����� S���; L��� G��; B�������� W������ L�������; A�� P��� W��� W��� F���; T�� R��� �� M�������; ��� S����. More than an academic, Butake has distinguished himself as a playwright, unearthing and foregrounding the ills, travails and predicaments of a land and people trapped by the blood-dripping impunities of vampires in power. In his rich repertoire of over ten plays, Butake takes sides with the downtrodden, the wretched of the earth, the deprived and the underdogs. His jabs and jibes, aimed at the rulers, are scathing, at times vitriolic. He has excelled at a stubborn determination to ignore the sinecures, lure and allure of power without responsibility. BOLE BUTAKE is an Emeritus Professor of Drama and African Literature at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. He is also a distinguished and internationally acclaimed playwright. Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon ...