Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya

Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya (27 October 1937 – 27 September 2021) was a Cameroonian politician and traditional King.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (September 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Mfon of the Bamum, Reign ...

Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya
Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya in 2014
Mfon of the Bamum
Reign	28 July 1992 – 27 September 2021
Predecessor	Seidou Njimoluh Njoya
Successor	Nabil Mbombo Njoya

Born	27 October 1937^[1] Foumban, Cameroon
Died	27 September 2021(2021-09-27) (aged 83) American Hospital, Paris, France^[1]
Father	Seidou Njimoluh Njoya
Mother	Noh Lantana^[1]
Occupation	Politician

He was trained as a civil administrator at the Institute for Administrative Studies in Dakar,^[1] after which he entered politics as a member of Cameroon's ruling party, the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement.^[2] He was a Senator and held several important government positions including Vice Minister of National Education and Culture, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Information, and ambassador to Equatorial Guinea and Egypt.^[1]^[2] He was the king of the Bamum people from 1992 until his disappearance in 2021.

Mbombo Njoya died due to complications of COVID-19,^[3]^[4] for which he was being treated in intensive care at the American Hospital of Paris,^[1]^[2] exactly a month prior to turning 84.

Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya

Biography

References

See also

Wikiwand - on