Johnnie MacViban’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Cameroonian journalist
Is Journalist 
From Cameroon 
Type Journalism 
Gender male
Birth 1 January 1955
Age: 65 years

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 CRTV 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.

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