Pauline Nalova Lyonga Egbe is a Cameroonian politician from the Fako division, South West region of

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. She has been the minister of secondary education since the ministerial reshuffle of March 2, 2018.

Biography

Youth and education

After graduating from the Queen of the Rosary Secondary school Okoyong in

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until 1968, she left for the Cameroon College of Arts Science and Technology in Bambili, where she obtained her GCE A Level (English High School diploma) in 1970. At the

University of Yaoundé The University of Yaoundé () was a university in Cameroon, located in Yaoundé, the country's capital. It was built with the help of France and opened in 1962 as the Federal University of Yaoundé, dropping the "Federal" in 1972 when the countr ...

, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1973. She left Cameroon to pursue her studies in England and obtained a master's degree in African literature from the

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. Since 1985, she holds a PhD in

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from the

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in the US.

Career

After a long career in university education, during which she held the positions of Director of business, then Vice-Rector, she was appointed rector of the

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on June 29, 2012. She held this position for 5 years until her departure in June 2017 following a presidential decree. A few months later, in November 2017, she was appointed President of the

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of the

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General Hospital, a position she held for a few months only, until her appointment on March 3, 2018, to the post of Minister of Secondary Education. She is the author of several publications of African Literature.

References

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