Labah Nformi Ngome is former principal and proprietor of New Vision Academy, New Bell, Douala, Cameroon. He started his writing career at the University of Yaounde 1 with the publi...ver maisLabah Nformi Ngome is former principal and proprietor of New Vision Academy, New Bell, Douala, Cameroon. He started his writing career at the University of Yaounde 1 with the publication of poems from his collection of poetry in the Wimbum Students’ Union (WISU) magazine. He read English language/literature, minor in performing arts. He performed on stage and television with the University of Yaounde Theater, notably in the plays The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi in which he played the role of Baba Fankunle (the blind soothsayer) and in The Survivor by Bole Butake in the role of the Old One. While teaching English language and literature, he also wrote sketches and poems that his students performed on local television stations in Douala. He has a collection of unpublished plays “No Chua Chua, No Nkambe,” “Naked for Money,” and ”The Soweto Sisters” a collection of short stories “Lunga and His People”, and a collection of poems “Many Bloody Rivers to Cross”. He is also a freelance writer and contributes articles on current issues to local newspapers in Cameroon. He also does movie reviews and edits movie scripts. He edited Too Deep by Paul Samba.
Presently he lives in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, with his wife and four kids, two boys and two girls.ver menos