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Anatole Fabien Marie Nkou (born June 21, 1948) is a
Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
ian
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and currently Cameroon's
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to the
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."President Paul Biya Addresses 65th UN General Assembly in New York." Welcome to the Embassy of the Republic of Cameroon, Washington DC, USA. Embassy of the Republic of Cameroon, Washington, DC, 4 Nov. 2010. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. . Anatole Nkou, who was born in
Brazzaville Brazzaville (, kg, Kintamo, Nkuna, Kintambo, Ntamo, Mavula, Tandala, Mfwa, Mfua; Teke: ''M'fa'', ''Mfaa'', ''Mfa'', ''Mfoa''Roman Adrian Cybriwsky, ''Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture'', ABC-CLI ...
, is the son of the late Prosper Marcel Ondoa Nkou (1905-1978), a Franco-Cameroonian landowner and Marine Officer of the Evouzok- Ewondo tribe. Ambassador Nkou's father, the grandson of a powerful
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on friendly terms with the then French
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of
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, enjoyed the extremely rare privilege to be sent with a handful of other young Cameroonian
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(his cousin) to a
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in
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(
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) in 1920. He is also the younger brother of His
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Innocent Ondoa Nkou,
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of the Evouzok- Ewondo tribe (
Fifinda Fifinda is a small town in the South Region of south-western Cameroon. It is located along the Edéa-Kribi road (National Route 7), northeast of Kribi and Bipindi and southwest of Elogbatindi. The area is surrounded by marshland, and the Lokun ...
) and Vice General Manager of the BICEC Cameroun groupe
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. Ambassador Nkou graduated with a
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of the International Relations Institute of Cameroon in 1972. He also graduated from the ENAM of Cameroon in the same year. He has a doctorate in History and International Relations. After working in several diplomatic missions in
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,
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, among other countries, Nkou became Cameroon's Ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2007. Father of 4, he is married to Therese Marie Nkou daughter of the first Cameroonian
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André-Marie Mbida Andre-Marie Mbida (1 January 19172 May 1980) was a Cameroonian statesman, a nationalist, the first Cameroonian to be elected Member of Parliament at the French National Assembly, a Prime Minister of Cameroon, the second African-born Prime Minist ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nkou, Anatole Fabien 1948 births Living people People from Brazzaville Permanent Representatives of Cameroon to the United Nations