Jeanne Ngo Mai’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Cameroonian poet
Was Poet 
From Cameroon 
Type Literature 
Gender female
Birth 1933, Cameroon
Death 2008
(aged 75 years)

Jeanne Ngo Mai (1933 – 2008) was a Cameroonian writer writing in French.

She was born in Poutchack near Ngambé and was educated in Sackbayeme, in Yaoundé and in Toulouse, France, where she received a degree in pharmacy. Ngo Mai returned to Cameroon in 1962, working as chief pharmacist in the hospital at Yaoundé. She opened her own pharmacy in 1963, operating it until 1993.

Many of her poems appeared in the publication Le Cameroun littéraire. In 1967, she published the collection of poems Poèmes sauvages et lamentations.

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