# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pius-njawe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:35:27.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pius-njawe"
name: "Pius Njawé"
slug: "pius-njawe"
description: "Pius Njawé was a Cameroonian journalist and director of Le Messager as well as Le Messager Populi. Arrested over 100 times for his reporting, Njawé won several awards for his work, including the 1991 CPJ International Press Freedom Award and the 1993 Golden Pen of Freedom. In 2000, he was named one of International Press Institute's fifty World Press Freedom Heroes of the previous fifty years. In Njawé's obituary, the New York Times described him as \"a symbol of opposition to the autocratic regime of Paul Biya\"."
tagline: "Journalist (1957–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pius_Njawe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-03-04"
deathDate: "2010-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.58
  momentum:             7.741935483870966
  historical:           7.206084000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3433411/"
    handle:    "nm3433411"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9A%AE%E7%83%8F%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%81%A9%E4%BD%90"
    title: "皮烏斯·恩佐"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%86%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "پيوس نچاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_Njaw%C3%A9"
    title: "Pius Njawé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_Njaw%C3%A9"
    title: "Pius Njawé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_Njaw%C3%A9"
    title: "Pius Njawé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_Njaw%C3%A9"
    title: "Pius Njawé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_Njaw%C3%A9"
    title: "Pius Njawé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_Njaw%C3%A9"
    title: "Pius Njawé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2356223"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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