# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theophile-obenga
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:55:38.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theophile-obenga"
name: "Théophile Obenga"
slug: "theophile-obenga"
description: "Théophile Obenga is professor emeritus in the Africana Studies Center at San Francisco State University. He is a politically active proponent of Pan-Africanism. Obenga is an Egyptologist, linguist, and historian."
tagline: "Congolese academic and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Obenga_2.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-02-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.240536
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "تيوفيل اوبينجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Թեոֆիլ Օբենգա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Théophile Obenga"
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    title: "Théophile Obenga"
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    title: "Теофіль Обенга"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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