Henriette Ekwe Ebongo’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Cameroonian journalist and political activist
Is Journalist 
From Cameroon 
Type Journalism 
Gender female
Birth 25 December 1949, Ambam, Vallée-du-Ntem, South, Cameroon
Age: 70 years

Henriette Ekwe Ebongo (born 1950) is a Cameroonian journalist, publisher and political activist. She was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2011.

Ebongo advocates freedom of press, gender equality, human rights, and good governance. She was active in the struggle against dictatorship in the 1980s, and the current campaign against government corruption, gender discrimination and human rights abuses. During this time she has suffered repression, torture, and being taken to military court.

She is the publisher of the independent weekly newspaper Babela and is a founder of the Cameroon branch of Transparency International, the anti-corruption non-governmental organization.

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