# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/axelle-kabou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:10:57.333Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/axelle-kabou"
name: "Axelle Kabou"
slug: "axelle-kabou"
description: "Axelle Kabou is a Cameroonian journalist, author and development specialist. She studied economy and communication and has been working for development aid. Her 1991 book Et si l'Afrique refusait le developpement is well-known and discussed. It examined an unwillingness and inability of Africans and African elites to take development of the continent into their own hands without relying on foreign aid."
tagline: "Author and journalist living in France"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.404536
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Axelle Kabou"
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    title: "Axelle Kabou"
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    title: "Axelle Kabou"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axelle_Kabou"
    title: "Axelle Kabou"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axelle_Kabou"
    title: "Axelle Kabou"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axelle_Kabou"
    title: "Axelle Kabou"
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    title: "Աքսել Կաբու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Axelle Kabou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump