The sagely Professor of International Relations traveled to the world beyond the night of Tuesday, July 7, 2020.

The political scientist served the educational community in several capacities. After earning a couple of postgraduate degrees abroad, Prof. Banlilon taught in many universities in West Africa including the Ahmadou Bello University. Upon his return to the country, he joined the University of Buea and walked through the ranks.

Described as a very nice, calm, cool, collected intellectual and gentleman, Prof. Banlilon's demise has left his students, colleagues, friends, and family inconsolable.

Tata Mbinglo, former President of the University of Buea Students' Union, UBSU, says the diseased professor was a mentor, soft-spoken and kind-hearted.

To his former student, Dzeayee Henry Ngalimnyuy, “It's so hard to believe you're no more Prof. Banlilon Victor Tani, my erudite Lecturer in Political science and International relations. The cold hands of death don't have any respect even for icons. Your legacy lives on Professor. ”

Leslie Ngwa recalls his first moments with Professor Banlilon in a tribute posted on Facebook. “Last time there was some form of interaction was when Prof Victor Banlilon liked one of my posts in June. He may have been Registrar and many other things, but above all, you were a very good teacher prof. There are not many. If someone teaches you and several years after you still remember what he taught you, then he did his job. Your lessons on the similarities and differences between power, influence, and authority during my first year in university stuck. Your students say you solved their problems - not like others who created them. ”

Professor Banlilon will be buried this Thursday at his residence in Bamenda.

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Born on January 1, 1967, Banlilon attended Government Primary School Jakiri, and proceeded to the Presbyterian Secondary School Mankon and Cameroon College of Arts and Technology Bambili respectively for his secondary and high school education.

After earning a Bachelor's Degree in Public Law from the University of Yaounde, Banlilon enrolled in the Ahmadou Bello University in Nigeria where he bagged home his Master's degree and Ph.D. He attended Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY, the USA in 2014 for a SUSI Scholar under the aegis of the US Department of State Program on US Foreign Policy.

Banlilon started his career as an Assistant lecturer at the Ahmadou Bello University before returning to Cameroon to be recruited as Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea.

He became Senior Lecturer in 2005 and was promoted to the Professorial rank in 2015. Among others, Prof. Banlilon served as Head of Service for Teaching and Research, Faculty Officer at the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences and Head of Department of Political Science and Public Administration all at the University of Buea.

In December 2014, he was appointed Secretary-General of the Higher Institute of Transport and Logistics, University of Bamenda. On June 27, 2017, he was appointed Registrar of the University of Bamenda.