Careen Pilo | |
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| Born | Careen Pilo Selangai Cameroon |
| Nationality | Cameroonian |
| Occupation(s) | Author, writer, diplomat |
| Employer(s) | Government of Cameroon, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Known for | Romantic fiction writing |
Careen Pilo Selangai who writes as Careen Pilo is an author, writer, and diplomat from Cameroon. [1]
Pilo has written four romantic works of fiction, an academic paper on gender in sub-Saharan Africa, and a United Nation Development Programme report on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2]
Since 2017, Pilo has worked as the First Secretary at the Cameroonian embassy to Italy, in Rome. [3] [4]
Cameroon's noncontentious, low-profile approach to foreign relations puts it squarely in the middle of other African and developing country states on major issues. It supports the principles of non-interference in the affairs of third world countries and increased assistance to underdeveloped countries. Cameroon is an active participant in the United Nations, where its voting record demonstrates its commitment to causes that include international peacekeeping, the rule of law, environmental protection, and Third World economic development. In the UN and other human rights fora, Cameroon's non-confrontational approach has generally led it to avoid criticizing other countries.
"Chant de Ralliement", also known as "Ô Cameroun berceau de nos ancêtres" is the national anthem of Cameroon and former national anthem of French Cameroon.
The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon is a political party in Cameroon.
The Bamiléké are a group of 90 closely related peoples who inhabit the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. According to Dr John Feyou de Hapy, Bamiléké means people of faith.
The Reguibat is a Sahrawi tribal confederation of mixed Arab and Sanhaja Berber origins. The Reguibat speak Hassaniya Arabic, and are Arab in culture. They claim descent from Sidi Ahmed al-Reguibi, an Arab Islamic preacher from Beni Hassan who settled in Saguia el-Hamra in 1503. They also believe that they are, through him, a chorfa tribe, i.e. descendants of Muhammad. Religiously, they belong to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam.
Andre-Marie Mbida was a Cameroonian statesman, a nationalist, the first Cameroonian to be elected Member of Parliament at the French National Assembly, a Prime Minister of Cameroon, the second African-born Prime Minister in Sub-Saharan Africa, the first Head of State of French-speaking autonomous Cameroon from 12 May 1957 to 16 February 1958, and the first political prisoner of independent Cameroon from 29 June 1962 to 29 June 1965.
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Hemley Boum is a Cameroonian novelist. She has received a number of notable awards for her novels, including the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire, the Prix Les Afriques and the Prix Ahmadou-Kourouma. Her novels have been translated into Dutch and English.
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Marie-Claire-Eléonore-Débochère Matip is a Cameroonian writer living in Paris. Her autobiographical novel Ngonda, published in 1958, is one of the first French-language texts to be published by a sub-Saharan African woman.
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Didier Mumengi was born in Kinshasa, May 23, 1962. A self-taught historian and economist, journalist by training, trainer in management and education, he is a writer and politician. He began his journalistic career as a columnist in a college newspaper in Paris. Afterwards, he penned several articles in various French and Congolese journals, including "Le Monde diplomatique."
Hermine Patricia Tomaïno Ndam Njoya, born on January 26, 1969, in Yaoundé, is a Cameroonian politician, entrepreneur, and author. She is a member of the Union démocratique du Cameroun (UDC) and serves as a deputy in the National Assembly of Cameroon.
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