dramas by such stations as BBC and RFI. The Concours théâtrale interafricain on RFI plays a major role in this regard. The French Cultural Centers are also helpful in so far as they sponsor the staging of plays in French, by offering their halls and giving financial and material assistance to the troupes. The postcolonial state gives some support in the first decades after independence. In 1976, the Ministry of Information and Culture establishes the troupe Théâtre National in the effort to promote African and especially Cameroonian theatre among the wide public. In addition, schools and universities organize theatre clubs to teach theatre culture to the youths. The professionalism of the Yaounde University theatre groups is here remarkable. Most of the plays center on the conflicts between modernity and tradition, while openly political plays are rare, due to the repressive regimes of Ahmadou Ahidjo and his successor Paul Biya. Within this context, it is an exception the committed work of Bole Butake, which, for example, denounces the so-called Anglophone problem, namely the cultural, economic and political marginalization of Anglophone Cameroon (North-West and South-West regions) by the francophone elites in power. His major creative works are « Lake God », « And palm wine will flow », « The survivors », « Shoes and four men in arms », « Dance of the vampires » and « The Rape of Michelle ». Bole Butake is sometimes considered the boldest and most committed author of Cameroon. Other critics consider Bate Besong as the most " most vocal and controversial poet, playwright and scholar" from Anglophone Cameroon so far. For example, Bate Besong's play "Beats of No Nation" forcefully depicts the oppression and marginalisation of Anglophone Cameroonians. Another important political author is Babila Mutia, whose « Before this time yesterday » touches upon the burning question of the UPC rebellion. Due to the lack of theatre halls and the scarcity of resources, theatrical plays are rarely staged and tend to circulate as texts, often published by the Yaounde Editions C.L.E. They are read by the educated people, but rarely known by the wider public. Since the 1970s a new kind of theatre has come up, following the huge success of the Radio Cameroon program Radio Trottoir, which launched the comic character of Jean Miché Kankan, an old and greedy bamileke man, performed by Dieudonné Afana. This new kind of farcical theatre is known