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List Of Cameroonian Writers
This is a list of Cameroonian writers. * Boé A-Amang (1938– ), playwright and theatre director * Severin Cecile Abega (1955–2008), French-language fiction writer and anthropologist, author of ''Les Bimanes'', ''Le Bourreau'' and ''Entre Terre et Ciel'' * Imbolo Mbue (1981– ) novelist * Marie-Therese Assiga Ahanda, chemist and novelist * N. M. Roger (1984-), English-Language fiction writer, blogger, and publisher, author ofDesolate Places,The President's Men,Prisoner #1,Scholastica: The Botanic Garden Ghost Bride * Paul-Charles Atangana (1930– ), French-language poet * Philomène Bassek (1957– ), French-language novelist, author of ''La Tache de Sang'' * Francis Bebey (1929–2001), author of ''Les Trois Petits Cireurs'', ''Agatha Moudio'son'', ''The Ashanti Doll'', ''Enfant Pluie'' and ''Ministre et le Griot'' * Jacques Bengono (1938– ), poet and short story writer * Bate Besong (1954–2007), poet * Mongo Beti, pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala (1932–2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demographics Of Cameroon
The demographic profile of Cameroon is complex for a country of its population. Cameroon comprises an estimated 250 distinct ethnic groups, which may be formed into five large regional-cultural divisions: * western highlanders (Semi-Bantu or grassfielders), including the Bamileke, Bamum (or ''Bamoun''), and many smaller Tikar groups in the Northwest (est. 38% of total population); * coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Duala (or ''Douala''), and many smaller groups in the Southwest (12%); * southern tropical forest peoples, including the Beti-Pahuin, Bulu (a subgroup of Beti-Pahuin), Fang (subgroup of Beti-Pahuin), Maka, Njem, and Baka pygmies (18%); * predominantly Islamic peoples of the northern semi-arid regions (the Sahel) and central highlands, including the Fulani (french: Peul or ''Peuhl''; ff, Fulɓe) (14%); ''and'' * the "Kirdi", non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the northern desert and central highlands (18%). 113,000 Igbo people live in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Mbella Sonne Dipoko (February 28, 1936 in Douala – December 5, 2009 in Tiko) was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon. He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of literature in English from Cameroon. Early life Mbella Sonne Dipoko was born to Paul Sonne Dipoko, who was the Chief of Missaka. Mbella took over as Chief of Missaka after his father died in 1990. As a young man, he worked for the Cameroon Development Corporation as an accounts clerk in the year 1956. The following year, 1957, he started working as a reporter for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. He stayed with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation until the year 1968. During this period of employment with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, he served as their reporter from France. In the year 1960 he started further studies in Paris, at the age of 24. For a couple of years, he studied Law and Economics at Université de Paris, and then abandoned his studies to pursue his interest i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Ndumbe Eyoh
Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh (November 11, 1949 – September 7, 2006) was a Cameroonian theatre director, critic, and playwright, and professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Yaoundé I. Ndumbe Eyoh was born in Kurume, Southwest Province. He attended primary school in Kumba and continued to St Joseph's College Sasse in 1963 as part of the jubilee class. He obtained his G.C.E. Ordinary Level there. Two years of homeschooling later, he received his G.C.E. Advanced Level. In 1970, he enrolled in the University of Yaoundé, where he studied English at the undergraduate level. From 1973, he spent a couple of years at the School of Drama at Leeds University in England, and graduated with a PhD. in 1979. He died in Yaoundé leaving behind a Widow and 5 children. Dibo Bedie Ndumbe-Eyoh, Fese Munyenge Ndumbe-Eyoh, Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, Mulango Ndumbe-Eyoh, Makia Ndumbe-Eyoh. Published works * ''World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa'' (1997) by Ousmane Diakhate (Editor), Hansel Ndumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV5Monde
TV5Monde (), formerly known as TV5, is a French public television network, broadcasting several channels of French-language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union. The network is available across Europe on satellite via Astra 19.2°E and Eutelsat Hot Bird (13°E) (both free-to-air), online and via TVPlayer. Summary TV5 started on 2 January 1984 and was under the management of Serge Adda until his death in November 2004. The next director since 6 April 2005 was Jean-Jacques Aillagon, a former French Minister for Culture and Communication. The director-general is now Marie-Christine Saragosse. In January 2006, TV5 underwent a major overhaul, including rebranding as "TV5Monde" to stress its focus as a global network ("Monde" is French for "World"). Also, the changes included a new schedule and a new program line-up. Since 1993, "TV5 Monde" is part of the channel's corporate name. Its Canadian operations are branded "TV5 Québec C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Epoté
Denise Laurence Djengué Epoté, (born 22 November 1954) is a Cameroonian journalist and the head of African reporting for the French television network, TV5 Monde. She was the first journalist to present the news in French on national public television, Cameroon Television (CTV), which later became known as the Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV). In January 2022, At the end of the press group’s board of directors, Denise Epoté was appointed three times as Marketing Director of TV5Monde, PCA of TV5Monde USA and PCA of TV5Monde Latin America, taking office on February 1, 2022. Life She was born in Nkongsamba, Cameroon on 22 November 1954. Her father, Jean Claude Epoté, was a civil servant and financial controller, and her mother, Mizpah Florina Mbella, worked at the treasury of Douala. Both are now retired. She was the eldest of a family of two girls and two boys. After her secondary education at Lycée Général Leclerc in Yaounde, Epoté was admitted to the International Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valère Epée
Valere or Valère may refer to: People * Valère Amoussou (born 1987), Beninese football player * Valère Billen (born 1952), Belgian football coach *Valère Germain (born 1990), French football player * Valère Gille (born 1867), Belgian poet * Valère Guillet (1796–1881), notary and political figure in colonial Quebec * Valère de Langres or Saint Valère (died 411), archdeacon of Langres *Valère Ollivier (1921–1958), Belgian racing cyclist * Valère Regnault (1545–1623), French Jesuit theologian *Alfred-Valère Roy (1870–1942), Canadian politician *Valère Somé (1950–2017), politician and scholar from Burkina Faso * Valere Van Sweevelt (born 1947), Belgian former racing cyclist * Valère Thiébaud (born 1999), Swiss racing cyclist *Simone Valère (1923–2010), French actress * Valérie Valère (1961–1981), French writer * Gabriel Valère Eteka Yemet, Congolese politician, First Secretary of the National Assembly 2012–7 Places and structures *Valère Basilica, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duala Language
Duala (''ɓwambo ba duālā in douala)'' (also spelt Douala, Diwala, Dwela, Dualla and Dwala) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Douala belongs to the Bantu language family, in a subgroup called Sawabantu. It is a tonal language with subject–verb–object word order. Maho (2009) treats Douala as a cluster of five languages: Douala proper, Bodiman, Oli (Ewodi, Wuri), Pongo and Mongo. He also notes a Douala-based pidgin named ''Jo''. History The origins of Duala come from the migrations of the Duala people during the sixteenth century from the Congo River Basin to the coastal areas of southern Cameroon. While it is a Bantu language, Guthrie estimates that it only retained as little as 14% of the roots of Proto-Bantu. Alfred Saker, a British missionary and linguist, completed in the first translation of the Bible into Duala in 1870. After the German colonization of Cameroon in 1885, the Basel Mission promoted Duala as a lingua fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda Ekotto
Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic. She is Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and is currently the Hunting Family Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. She is best known for her novels, which focus on gender and sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and her work on the writer Jean Genet, particular her political analysis of his prison writing,Ekotto, F., 2001, ''L'Ecriture carcérale et le discours juridique: Jean Genet'', Paris : L’Harmattan., and his impact as a race theorist in the Francophone world.Ekotto, F., 2011, ''Race and Sex across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical, and Theater Discourse'' (New York: Lexington Press). Her research and teaching focuses on literature, film, race and law in the Francophone world, spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean and the Maghreb. Life Frieda Ekotto was born in Cameroon and was raised in Switz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberation Theology
Liberation theology is a Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed. In certain contexts, it engages socio-economic analyses, with "social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples". In other contexts, it addresses other forms of inequality, such as race or caste. Liberation theology is best known in the Latin American context, especially within Catholicism in the 1960s after the Second Vatican Council, where it became the political praxis of theologians such as Gustavo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Boff, and Jesuits Juan Luis Segundo and Jon Sobrino, who popularized the phrase " preferential option for the poor". This expression was used first by Jesuit Fr. General Pedro Arrupe in 1968 and soon after the World Synod of Catholic Bishops in 1971 chose as its theme "Justice in the World". The Latin American context also produced Protestant advocates of liberation theology, such as Rubem Alves, José Míguez Bonino, and C. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Marc Ela
Jean-Marc Ela (27 September 1936 – 26 December 2008) was a Cameroonian sociologist and theologian. Working variously as a diocesan priest and a professor, Ela was the author of many books on theology, philosophy, and social sciences in Africa. His most famous work, ''African Cry'' has been called the "soundest illustration" of the spirit of liberation theology in sub-Saharan Africa. His works are widely cited as exemplary of sub-Saharan African Christian theology for their focus on contextualisation and their emphasis on community-centered approaches to theology. He was buried in his hometown of Ebolowa, Cameroon. Biography Jean-Marc Ela was born on 27 September 1936 in Ebolowa, in the African nation of Cameroon. The son of a middle-class family in southern Cameroon, Ela claimed that he first began to think of theology as a discipline that should be concerned with the local needs of believers while he was studying philosophy and theology in France at the University of Strasb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
