Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire-Eléonore-Débochère Matip (born 1938) is a Cameroonian writer living in Paris. The daughter of a tribal leader, she was born in Eséka; her father had about fifty children from several different mothers. She was schooled at home at first and then attended school locally. Then, she studied at a college for girls in Douala, where she wrote her novel "Ngonda". In 1956, she won a contest sponsored by "Elle" magazine and Air France that allowed her to travel to France; she returned the following year. In 1958, she studied for her baccalauréat at the Lycée Général Leclerc in
Claire Watt-Smith Claire Watt-Smith Claire Watt-Smith (born 1984) is an English entrepreneur. Watt-Smith studied at Royal Holloway, University of London, gaining a BSc in Management Studies with French in 2005 and a Masters in European Business and Spanish in 2006. At the age of 25, Watt-Smith founded BoBelle a luxury accessories company, in 2009. The headquarters are in Somerset House, London. In 2008, Watt-Smith was named one of the ""Future 100 Young Entrepreneurs Of The Year"". She was nominated for the Daily Mail's "Enterprising Young Brit" competition. She has taken part in the Inspire & Mentor campaign of the magazine "Marie Claire",