# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frieda-ekotto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:59:32.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frieda-ekotto"
name: "Frieda Ekotto"
slug: "frieda-ekotto"
description: "Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic. She is Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and is currently the Hunting Family Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. She is best known for her novels, which focus on gender and sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and her work on the writer Jean Genet, particular her political analysis of his prison writing, and his impact as a race theorist in the Francophone world. Her research and teaching focuses on literature, film, race and law in the Francophone world, spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean and the Maghreb."
tagline: "Cameroonian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frieda-Ekotto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.71
  momentum:             1.578947368421052
  historical:           5.470842666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Frieda Ekotto"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Ekotto"
    title: "Frieda Ekotto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Ekotto"
    title: "Frieda Ekotto"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Ekotto"
    title: "Frieda Ekotto"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Ekotto"
    title: "Frieda Ekotto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Ekotto"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15430709"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump