Josh Blue (born November 27, 1978) is an American comedian. He was voted the Last Comic Standing on NBC's reality show Last Comic Standing during its fourth season,Blue was born in Cameroon, where his father, Walter Blue, a professor of Romance languages from Hamline University, was teaching in a mission. Blue grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota and graduated from Como Park Senior High School in 1997. He began his career as a comedian while seeking a creative writing degree at The Evergreen State College.
Nea Marshall Kudi (born March 20, 1981), better known as BeBe Zahara Benet, is a former male model, a drag queen from Cameroon and winner of the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar" from the first season of the popular reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race.
Anksa Kara (born March 24, 1985 at Nkongsamba, Cameroon) is a french pornographic actress.She arrived in France in 1993. In 2005, she initially worked as dancer stripper in several famous Parisian clubs. She became a nude model and a pornographic actress. She is an actress (Oscar Sisto's scool), television presenter and film producer of hardcore movies. She was nominated in the first round of Hot d'Or in 2009 in Paris.
Jean-Pierre Bekolo (born June 8, 1966 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a film director.Jean Pierre Bekolo, the noted African film director, was nominated for a British Film Institute award in 1993, for Quartier Mozart (1992). His style is playful, comic, and sardonic. His film, Le complot d'Aristote (1996), started out as the African entry in the British Film Institute's series of films commemorating the centenary of cinema. Part meditation on the trials of African filmmaking, part action movie send-up, part parody of Aristotle's rules, part satire on Africa's preoccupation with itself, this film shows Bekolo to be an "increasingly fearless trickster.
Alphonse Beni is a Cameroonian actor and movie director, sometimes credited as Alfons Beny or Chris Kelly. He made several author movies in Cameroon, acted in French erotic comedies and even played a ninja in Godfrey Ho's "ninja" flicks Black Ninja.
Born in Cameroon, Ellie Foumbi moved to the United States at the age of five. Growing up in the suburbs of New York City, she attended the French-American School of New York where she was introduced to classic French theatre and the richness of French cinema.
Jean-Marie Teno, Africa's preeminent documentary filmmaker, has been producing and directing films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty years. Films by Jean-Marie Teno have been honored at festivals worldwide: Berlin, Toronto, Yamagata, Cinema du Reel, Visions du Reel, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liepzig, San Francisco, London. In the U.S., many of his films including Africa, je te plumerai; A Trip to the Country; Clando; Chief!; Alex's Wedding; and The Colonial Misunderstanding, have been broadcast and featured at festivals across the country. Teno has been a guest of the Flaherty Seminar, an artist in residence at the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California, Berkeley, and has lectured at numerous universities. Most recently, he was a visiting artist at Amherst College as a 2007-08 Copeland Fellow.
Born in Douala, Cameroon, Cesa moved to the states when she was a young girl. She was raised by her mother, Delfina, in Manchester, New Hampshire. She has two older sisters, Nicola and Alexandra. Cesa attended the University of Florida and has a bachelor degree in Building Construction and a Masters in Business. She is passionate about football and an avid fan of the Florida Gators and New England Patriots. She worked as a project manager on The New York Times Building and the WTC Memorial projects in New York City. She left her construction career to pursue an acting career full-time in 2009. She participated in and completed the ING NYC Marathon in 2009.
Skwall is a French director. Three cities resume his life: Douala, Cameroon, were he was born and raised; Paris, France, where he spent his teenage years and adulthood; and Los Angeles, California, where he currently lives. He is this ever optimistic character whose mission is to travel around the world with his 35mm camera, seeking for a better understanding of life, the human being with its aspects and symbols.
Immediately after his graduation from the "Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais", Skwall secured an internship position in music video company "Partizan Midi Minuit", and had the opportunity to work with legendary French filmmaker Michel Gondry (Bjork, Eternal Sunshine...).
A military test-pilot, he was selected as a French astronaut in 1980.
In June 1985, he became the second Frenchman in space, by flying aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-51G mission.
He retired to work on the Hermes spaceplane project and then as a test pilot for Airbus Industrie, while still writing numerous books about manned spaceflight
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