Ama Tutu Muna (born 17 July 1960) is a Cameroonian politician who was the Minister of Arts and Culture from 2007 to 2015.
Ama Tutu Muna (born 17 July 1960) is a Cameroonian politician who was the Minister of Arts and Culture from 2007 to 2015.
Muna was born in Limbe in Southwest Province on 17 July 1960. [1] She is the youngest of eight children born to Salomon Tandeng Muna, formerly Prime Minister of West Cameroon and then Vice President of Cameroon, and Elizabeth Fri Ndingsa. [2] Her brothers include Bernard Muna, Chairman of the Alliance of Progressive Forces, and Akere Muna, President of the International Anti-Corruption Conference Council.
Muna studied linguistics at the University of Montreal in Canada, graduating in 1983. [1]
Muna was Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economy in Limbe from December 2004. She was appointed Minister of Arts and Culture in 2007. [1] [3] Muna initiated the Mbengwi Women Cooperative to combat the plight of the rural woman and founded the North West Women’s Forum. [4]
In 2014, Muna was criticised for transferring cultural artifacts from the Northwest Region to Yaounde. [5] On May 22, 2015, Prime Minister Philemon Yang gave Muna forty-eight hours to dissolve a new authors' rights structure (SOCACIM) she had created. [3] [6] She was removed from her ministerial position in a government reshuffle by President Paul Biya on 2 October 2015, amid reports that she had mismanaged billions of francs in authors royalties. [7] In February 2016, staff sought to remove from her state-owned ministerial villa at Bastos, but she refused and claimed she had made arrangements to buy it. As of September 2016, she had not moved. [8] [9] [10]
Muna had one son, Efemi Nkweti Muna, who was born in 1987. He was killed in a car accident on 8 February 2014. [11] [12]
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