# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-marc-ela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:37:46.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-marc-ela"
name: "Jean Marc Ela"
slug: "jean-marc-ela"
description: "Jean-Marc Ela was a Cameroonian sociologist and theologian. Working variously as a diocesan priest and a professor, Ela was the author of many books on theology, philosophy, and social sciences in Africa. His most famous work, African Cry has been called the \"soundest illustration\" of liberation theology in sub-Saharan Africa. His works are widely cited as exemplary of sub-Saharan African Christian theology for their focus on contextualisation and their emphasis on community-centered approaches to theology."
tagline: "Cameroonian sociologist and theologian (1936-2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Jean-Marc_Ela.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-09-27"
deathDate: "2008-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.474082666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jean-Marc Ela"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "چيان مارك الا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Ela"
    title: "Jean-Marc Ela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Ela"
    title: "Jean-Marc Ela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Ela"
    title: "Jean-Marc Ela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Ela"
    title: "Jean-Marc Ela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1685021"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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