Guy Kouemou
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Childhood, education and beginnings
Date of birth January 15, 1970 in Bafoussam Cameroon
Dr.-Ing. Guy Leonard Kouemou is a German citizen of Cameroonian origin. He comes from the Bamileke royal house and is the king's representative of the Bangwa.[1] Dr. Kouemou is himself an art collector and currently chairman of the supervisory board of the Bangwa Ethnological Museum in Cameroon[2] and the negotiator of the Bangwa.[3]
Traditional responsibilities
Kouemou demonstrates his engagement for the population of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, by investing his personal fortune to build hygienic and modern clinics in Cameroon.[4] Kouemou was present at the inauguration of Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, where he inaugurated a memorial site for Manga Bell in Ulm, together with king Jean-Yves Eboumbou Douala Bell.[5][6][7][8][9]
Career
School career
- High school: «Lycee Joss de Douala[10]
University Education
- 1989 - 1995: Study of electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe with a focus on biocybernetics and bio-medical technology (KIT, then TU Karlsruhe, Fridericiana)
- He is the laureate of the German Academic Exchange Service of KIT 1996[11]
- 1996 - 2000 PhD. For a PhD in electrical engineering and information technology with a focus on artificial intelligence, hidden Markov models[12] and neural networks.[13]
- Dr. Guy Kouemou is one of the first Afro-Germans[14] with a migration background (not born in Germany, other mother tongue, grown in a different language area) to study electrical engineering entirely in German Germany studied and obtained a doctorate in the German language. "Statement" by President Gerhard Selmayr of the university in the context of the DAAD award ceremony in Karlsruhe.[15]
Intercultural Understandings
Dr. Guy Kouemou is involved in cultural associations with a focus on intercultural understanding. Thus, he is honorary board member and co-founder (2000) of the German-African cultural association MAMY-Afrika e.V.[16] In his role as the king's representative of the Bangwa, he is also the contact person and representative of the Bangwa peoples in the matter of the handling or return of African art objects in close coordination with the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.[17] Furthermore, Dr. Guy Leonard Kouemou is also working with Cameroonian and African works of art, and supports a sustainable manner of returning the pieces which were initially taken away during colonialism. [18]
