# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrice-nganang
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:37:17.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrice-nganang"
name: "Patrice Nganang"
slug: "patrice-nganang"
description: "Alain Patrice Nganang is an American writer, poet and teacher of Cameroonian origin, a member of the Bamileke people. He authored the poetry collections elobi (1995) and Apologie du Vandale (2006). As a literature scholar, his research examines violence and post-colonial African literature and culture. He earned a Master's degree from the University of Yaounde in 1992."
tagline: "Cameroonian-American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patrice_Nganang_20100328_Salon_du_livre_de_Paris_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.44
  momentum:             3
  historical:           5.477250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump