Ama Tutu Muna
Ama Tutu Muna (born 17 July 1960) is a Cameroon politician who was the Minister of Arts and Culture from 2007 to 2015.
Early life and education
Muna was born in Limbe in Southwest Province on 17 July 1960.[1] She is the youngest of eight children born to Salomon Tandeng Muna, formerly Prime Minister of West Cameroon and then Vice President of Cameroon, and Elizabeth Fri Ndingsa.[2] Her brothers include Bernard Muna, Chairman of the Alliance of Progressive Forces, and Akere Muna, President of the International Anti-Corruption Conference Council.
Muna studied linguistics at the University of Montreal in Canada, graduating in 1983.[1]
Career
Muna was Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economy in Limbe from December 2004. She was appointed Minister of Arts and Culture in 2007.[1][3] Muna initiated the Mbengwi Women Cooperative to combat the plight of the rural woman and founded the North West Women’s Forum.[4]
In 2014, Muna was criticised for transferring cultural artifacts from the Northwest Region to Yaounde.[5] On May 22, 2015, Prime Minister Philemon Yang gave Muna forty-eight hours to dissolve a new authors' rights structure (SOCACIM) she had created.[3][6] She was removed from her ministerial position in a government reshuffle by President Paul Biya on 2 October 2015, amid reports that she had mismanaged billions of francs in authors royalties.[7] In February 2016, staff sought to remove from her state-owned ministerial villa at Bastos, but she refused and claimed she had made arrangements to buy it. As of September 2016, she had not moved.[8][9][10]
Personal life
Muna had one son, Efemi Nkweti Muna, who was born in 1987. He was killed in a car accident on 8 February 2014.[11][12]
References
- 1 2 3 "The New Ministers". Post Newsline. 10 September 2007. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ Clarisse Juompan-Yakam (12 July 2011). "Le Cameroun leur appartient - Les grandes familles du Cameroun - Jeuneafrique.com - le premier site d'information et d'actualité sur l'Afrique". JEUNEAFRIQUE.COM. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- 1 2 "The Rise and Fall of Ama Tutu Muna". The Eye Newspaper. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ "H.E Ama Tutu Muna: The Woman Emancipator". The Eye Newspaper. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ Muteh, Samson (12 June 2014). "Cameroon's Minister of Culture chastise for "scandalous" and "abominable" acts". The Fomunyoh Foundation. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ Bidjocka, Pamela (25 May 2015). "Author's Rights: Prime Minister weighs in". CRTV. Archived from the original on 2016-11-22. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ Afoni, Basil (8 October 2015). "Passports of 8 Sacked Ministers Seized". Cameroon Post. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ "Cameroon: Biya abandons Ministers to lodge in Hotel Monte Febe 11 months after being appointed". Cameroon Concord. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ "Cameroon: Ama Tutu Muna chased from the ministerial villa". Cameroon Voice (in French). 17 February 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ "L'ancienne ministre de la culture a été 'bousculée', de sa villa, une pratique inhabituelle au Cameroun". Camer.be (in French). 17 February 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ "Cameroon's Minister of Arts and Culture's son killed in a road accident". Empower Success in Africa. 8 February 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ "Efemi Kwenti Muna, the only son of the Cameroon's Minister of Art and Culture was finally put to rest". Empower Success in Africa. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2016.