Stella Engama

Stella Engama, born Stella Irène Virginie Engama on in Yaoundé, Centre Region, Cameroon, is a Cameroonian teacher-researcher, novelist, poet, and playwright. She is the promoter of a literary prize named after her Foundation "the Stella Engama Universal Foundation for Education and Culture(FUSEE)". She is also a founder of schools , a cultural center, and the Society of Friends of Literature (SAL). She is a queen in the Eton people.

Early life and education Stella Engama was born on February 25, 1955, in Yaoundé, the fourth of sixteen children. In 1973, she passed the Baccalauréat G1 with honors at the Technical High School of Yaoundé. In 1978, she obtained a Master's in Private Law at the University of Yaoundé. In 1983, she earned a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Business Law

Career Stella Engama held the position of Executive Secretary at the Chancellery of the University of Yaoundé. She taught law at the Technical Commercial High School of Yaoundé and at the Association for the Training of Executives (AFCA) where she was a part-time lecturer. In 1979, she joined the T. Bella Group as an Executive Assistant in charge of Litigation and Personnel. She resigned in 1982 to venture into entrepreneurship. She first created, with her architect brother, a civil engineering and interior architecture company called ARDEHCOUnive. Then, she launched the Stella Engama Universal Foundation for Education and Culture (FUSEE) in August 1989, which included schools in Yaoundé and her village in Nkol-Nyada, 25 kilometers on the road to Okola.

She published Invent Me and Intimate Words, a collection of poems dedicated to problematic love relationships, offering a questioning of social gender relations.

Stella Engama continues to write correspondences. She published funeral tributes to Eno Belinga, Emmanuel Keki Manyo, René Philombé, Cyrille Effala, and Sita Bella.

Works

Novels , preface by Jacques Fame Ndongo. .