Veye Wirngo Tatah (born c.1971) 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 computer scientist and journalist who lives in Germany. She is an advocate for Africa who has received an Order of Merit from the German state.

Life

Tatah was born in about 1971 and she arrived in Germany in 1991. She was born in

but became a German citizen in 2002.Africa is not a Country and Black is a Colour
handelsblatt.com, Retrieved 6 April 2016 She worked for over six years as a computer science research assistant with the

Technical University of Dortmund TU Dortmund University (german: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's an ...

. She then became an IT consultant managing projects and particularly those concerned with inter-cultural communication. Tatah owns a catering company called ''Kilimanjaro Food''. Tatah has two children. She has also set a number of initiatives including the Learning and integration mobile app ''African-LIM'', the "African Women's Network" and ''Africa Positive''. Tatah endeavours to increase international understanding. On 25 February 2010 Tatah received the

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

for her special social engagement. She has been involved in the training of thirty journalists from Gambia at the Erich-Brost-Institut in 2019. The journalists were being offered the purpose of reporting on migration.

References

1971 births Living people Cameroonian journalists Cameroonian women journalists Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Africa-journalist-stub