Marie-Claire Matip

Marie-Claire Matip was born in 1938 in Éséka, the daughter of Matip Ma Soundjock, the last traditional chief of the Ndog-Nje clan. Taught by a private tutor, then at the village school and, at thirteen, at the girls' secondary school in Douala, she won a competition in 1956 that earned her a trip to France, trained the following year in radio presenting and hosted a programme for young people. Having passed her school-leaving exam in Yaoundé, she studied literature and Protestant theology in Montpellier, then philosophy, psychology and sociology at the Sorbonne. She then lived in France and died in 2025.

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• NarrativeNgondaMarie-Claire Matip · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature