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
Marie-Claire Foblets Marie-Claire Foblets Marie-Claire, Baroness Foblets is a Belgian lawyer and anthropologist and professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). She is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Germany). Her research interests are interculturalism, migration and minorities. In 2004, she was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences for her research on anthropology. She is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Professor of Law and Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She invited Norman Finkelstein, an Hezbollah ally, to the Max Planck institute, what produced a lot of political