Mireille Nemale
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Born1949 (age 75–76)
Baboutcheu-Ngaleu West Region
Occupations
- Activist
- Fashion stylist
- Educator
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Mireille Nemale (née Ngounou;born 1949) is a Cameroonian fashion stylist, entrepreneur and educator. In 1973, she became the first African woman to graduate in haute couture from the École de la chambre syndicale de la couture parisienne. Despite becoming widowed when only 26, she taught for many years at the CETIC institute in Douala.
On retiring in 2009, she concentrated on training students at the New Fashion Academy which she had founded in 1993. As a result, some 300 Cameroonians have since entered the fashion profession at home and abroad. Nemale's distinctions include Commander of the Order of Valour.[1][2][3]