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Cameroonians In France
Cameroonians in France consist of migrants from Cameroon and their descendants living and working in France. History The first Cameroonian immigrants in France came in the 1970s, like the Congolese, some years after the first immigrant wave from Sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal Valley) to France. This immigration has sped up in the 1980s (due to the social and economic crisis in Cameroon) Notable people * Samuel Umtiti, professional footballer * Françoise Mbango Etone, track and field athlete * Kylian Mbappé, professional footballer * Griedge Mbock Bathy, professional footballer * Gévrise Émane, judoka * Véronique Mang, track and field athlete * Bryan Mbeumo, professional footballer * Loïc Mbe Soh , professional footballer * Francis Ngannou, mixed martial artist * Dany Bill, kickboxer * Teddy Tamgho, track and field athlete * Calixthe Beyala, writer * Emil Abossolo-Mbo, actor * Vencelas Dabaya, weightlifter * Serge Betsen, rugby union player * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanji Language
The Fanji language, ''Chuufiè'' (''chufieʼ''), is a Grassfields Bantu language and the language of the Bafanji people in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. There are approximately 17,000 speakers. The language has a rich system of tonal morphology, including reduplication involving adjectives. Bafanji speakers, who number 8,500, call their language ''Chuufi''. It is spoken south of Ndop in Ngoketunjia Department, Northwest Region. It is closely related to Bamali Bamali village is one of the four villages that make up Ndop Central sub division and one of the thirteen villages of Ngoketunjia division of the North West region of Cameroon. Bamali village is located partly along the ring road from Bamenda ..., Mengambo, and Bambalang. Phonology Consonants References * Languages of Cameroon Nun languages {{gras-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gévrise Émane
Gévrise Émane (born 27 July 1982) is a French judoka. She was the European champion in the women's 63 kg weight class. Emane first gained attention at the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo, Egypt where she won the silver medal in the women's 70 kg class. Next year, Emane won her first European title at the 2006 European Judo Championships in Tampere after an ippon in the final, against the German Heide Wollert. Emane became the world champion for the first time at the 2007 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Ronda Rousey of United States by points in the final match. After moving down in weight to the 63 kg class in 2009, Emane claimed her second World Championship title at the 2011 World Judo Championships in Paris, where she beat two-time world champion Yoshie Ueno is a Japanese judoka. She won the gold medal in the Half-middleweight (63 kg) division at the 2009 World Judo Championships and in 2010, in 2011 she lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedric Doumbe
Cedric () is a masculine given name invented by Walter Scott in the 1819 novel ''Ivanhoe''.Sir Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch (ed.), ''Ivanhoe'', vol. 8 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, Edinburgh University Press, 1998, , "explanatory notes", p. 511. The invented name is based on ''Cerdic'', the name of a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon king (itself from Common Brittonic, Brittonic ''Coroticus''). The name was not popularly used until the children's book ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett was published in 1885 to 1886, the protagonist of which is called Cedric Errol. The book was highly successful, causing a fashion trend in children's formal dress in America and popularized the given name. People named Cedric born in the years following the novel's publication include British naval officer Cedric Holland (1889–1950), American war pilot Cedric Fauntleroy (1891–1973), Irish art director Cedric Gibbons, Austin Cedric Gibbons (1893–1960) and Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoinette Nana Djimou
Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida (born 2 August 1985 in Douala, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian-French heptathlete and pentathlete. She has won two European Athletics Championships heptathlon gold medals (in 2012 and 2014) and two European Athletics Indoor Championships pentathlon gold medals (in 2011 and 2013). Her heptathlon personal best result is 6576 points, achieved at the 2012 Olympics in London. . Career Nana Djimou finished 4th at the 2012 Olympics heptathlon in London, with a personal best of 6576 points. Nana Djimou withdrew from the upcoming 2015 World Championships in Athletics after undergoing an operation in June 2015. Personal bests ;Outdoor *100 m: 11.78 (2008) *200 m: 24.36 (2011) *800 m: 2:15.22 (2014) *100 m hs: 12.96 (2012) *High jump: 1.83 m (2011) *Long jump: 6.43 m (2016) *Shot put: 16.17 m (2016) *Javelin throw: 57.27 m (2012) *Heptathlon: 6,576 (2012) ;Indoor *60 m: 7.59 (2008) *800 m: 2:18.09 (2011) *60 m hs: 8.11 (2010 and 2011) *High jump: 1.84 m (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam
Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam (born 18 February 1984) is a French Cameroonian professional boxer. He has held a middleweight world championship twice, including the WBO title in 2012 and the WBA (Regular) title in 2017, and has challenged once for a super-middleweight world title in 2019. Amateur career N'dam N'Jikam won a silver medal in the middleweight division at the 2003 All-Africa Games, losing to Ramadan Yasser of Egypt in the final. N'jikam represented Cameroon in the middleweight bracket at the 2004 Olympics, defeating Juan Ubaldo of the Dominican Republic and Andy Lee of Ireland on close countback decisions, but losing in the quarter-finals to eventual gold medallist Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov of Russia. Following the Olympics, and having no means of boxing professionally in his native Cameroon, N'Jikam moved to France due to the shared language. At the 2016 Olympics, professional boxers were permitted to compete at the Olympics for the first ever time. As one of the few p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Betsen
Serge Betsen Tchoua (born 25 March 1974) is a former French rugby union player who played as a flanker for London Wasps and Biarritz at club level and for internationally. He is generally considered to be one of the top flankers of the professional era (post-1995) of rugby union. Career Born in Kumba, Cameroon, of partial Bamileke heritage, Betsen moved to France with his mother and six siblings when he was nine, settling in the Clichy suburb of Paris. He played his first competitive rugby for the local Clichy based Club Sportif before joining the southern giants Biarritz when he was just 17. Betsen made his first appearance for France aged 23 in 1997, as a replacement against , but did not receive his second call-up until the 2000 Six Nations Championship. Thereafter he became a regular starter in the national team. Nicknamed ''la Faucheuse'' (''the Grim Reaper''), Betsen was regarded as one of the fiercest tacklers in the game, and was also renowned for his high wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vencelas Dabaya
Vencelas Dabaya Tientcheu (born 28 April 1981 in Kumba, Cameroon) is a French weightlifter. He is a former World Champion, European champion and Olympic silver medalist in weightlifting. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he represented Cameroon, and was flag bearer of the Cameroonian team at the opening ceremony. In the Olympic tournament he ranked 5th in the 69 kg category, with a total of 327.5 kg. He represents France since he became naturalized French citizen in November 2004. He won the bronze medal in the 69 kg category at the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships. Dabaya participated in the men's -69 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the gold medal, snatching 146 kg and jerking an additional 186 kg for a total of 332 kg. With his gold medal, became weightlifting's 500th World Champion and received the special IWF Award for this honour. At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Abossolo-Mbo
Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detectives'' (1929), a children's novel *"Emil", nickname of the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration (1982–1999) *''Emil i Lönneberga'', a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren Military *Emil (tank), a Swedish tank developed in the 1950s * Sturer Emil, a German tank destroyer People *Emil (given name), including a list of people with the given name ''Emil'' or ''Emile'' *Aquila Emil (died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer Other * ''Emile'' (film), a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai *Emil (river), in China and Kazakhstan See also * * *Aemilius (other) *Emilio (other) *Emílio (other) *Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calixthe Beyala
Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French. Biography A Cameroonian author and member of the Eton people, Calixthe Beyala was born in Sa'a to Cameroonian parents. Her aunt and grandmother were particularly strong influences on her development, and she grew up listening to her grandmother's stories. Stories from which she drew inspiration and used to motivate her to work hard toward the creation of a meaningful career. Beyala was educated at the École Principale du Camp Mboppi in Douala and went on to study at the Lycée des Rapides à Bangui and the Lycée Polyvalent de Douala. She eventually won a scholarship to study in Paris at the age of seventeen, where she through a strong academic performance obtained a baccalaureate. After a few years in Spain she published her first book, ''C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée'', at the age of 23 and eventually chose to become a full-time writer. Awards * 1998 - Le Prix comité français de l' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Tamgho
Teddy Tamgho (born 15 June 1989) is a French triple jumper and long jumper. He specialises in the triple jump. He is the current triple jump world indoor record holder at 17.92 m, achieved in winning the final and gold medal at the 2011 European Indoor Championships. He is the world's sixth best ever triple jumper outdoors, with his best mark of 18.04 metres achieved in winning the final and gold medal at the 2013 World Championships. Tamgho's first triple jump gold medal came at the 2008 World Junior Championships and he reached the triple jump final (where he finished in 11th position) of the World Championships the following year. He came to prominence by setting his first triple jump world indoor record of 17.90 m in winning the triple jump final and gold medal at the 2010 World Indoor Championships. He was the triple jump overall winner of the 2010 IAAF Diamond League and the triple jump bronze medallist at the 2010 European Championships. Tamgho missed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dany Bill
Dany Bill (born 28 April 1973) is a Cameroonian former kickboxer and seven-time Muay Thai World Champion. Biography When growing up as a kid in France Dany used to play soccer, but the day he saw muay thai on TV changed his life. Right after that, in 1986, he began to train at Nemrod Boxing Gym (La Cité du Clos Saint Lazare) in his hometown Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis, Stains (93). Dany Bill had his first fight at the age of 14 and became the French Muay Thai Champion in 1988 when he was only 15 years old. In 1993, he was the first European fighter to win the World Title in Thailand against Den Muang Surin. This took place during the King's Birthday Event in Bangkok. He was World Champion for seven consecutive years, from 1993 to 1999, defeating all the best fighters in the world such as Nokweed Devy, Pananonlek, Saimai Suk, Orono Por Muang U bon, Joel Cesar, Joe Prestia. He lost his World Title in 1999 against Sakmongkol Sithchuchok. After that he fought at the King's Birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ngannou
Francis Zavier Ngannou (born 5 September 1986) is a Cameroonian professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Heavyweight Champion. As of November 14, 2022, he is #5 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings. Early life and education Ngannou was born and raised in the village of Batié, Cameroon. He lived in poverty and had little formal education growing up. Ngannou's parents divorced when he was six years old, and he was sent to live with his aunt. At 10 years old, Ngannou started working in a sand quarry in Batié because of a lack of funds. As a youngster, he was approached by several gangs in his village to join them. However, Ngannou refused and instead decided to use his father's negative reputation as a street fighter as motivation to do something positive and pursue boxing. At the age of 22, Ngannou began training in boxing, despite the initial reluctance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
