The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Cameroon
This page contains a list of the greatest Cameroonian Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 1 of which were born in Cameroon. This makes Cameroon the birth place of the 78th most number of Philosophers behind Trinidad and Tobago, and Somalia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cameroonian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Cameroonian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Achille Mbembe (b. 1957)
With an HPI of 51.49, Achille Mbembe is the most famous Cameroonian Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Joseph-Achille Mbembe (; born 1957), is a Cameroonian historian and political theorist who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cameroonian philosophers born between 1957 and 1957. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Cameroonian philosophers include Achille Mbembe.
