Curriculum Vitae

Born in Douala, Cameroon, into a royal family, Prince Kum' a Ndumbe III was sent to Germany at the age of 15, where he made his “Abitur” before moving to France for his university studies.

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Education

Formal and Informal Education

  • Date of Birth: 1.11.1946, Douala (Cameroon)
  • Years of initiation into African culture and tradition in Cameroon
  • 1951-1959: Ecole Principale de Bonabéri, Douala-Cameroon
  • 1959-1960: Lycée Leclerc de Yaoundé, Yaoundé-Cameroon
  • 1960-1961: Collège Alfred Saker, Douala-Cameroon
  • 1961-1967: Maria-Theresia-Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium (High School), Munich/Germany
  • 1967: Abitur
  • 1967-1968: Faculty of Law and Economics, Lyon, France (Law, Economy, Political Science)
  • 1967-1979: Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lyon, France (German Studies/History/Political Science)
  • 1967-1968: Faculty of Law and Economics, Lyon, France (Economic and Social Management, 1978-1979 DUEG)
  • 1969: DUEL
  • 1970: Licence
  • 1970: Maîtrise
  • 1975: Doctorat/Ph.D.
  • 1987-1989: Habilitation, Otto-Suhr-Institut (Faculty of Political Science), Free University of Berlin, Germany

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Working Experience

Teaching

  • 1969-1975: Tutor, Faculty of Humanities, Université de Lyon, France
  • Okt. 1975-1979: Assistant, Faculty of Humanities / Institute of Political Science, Université de Lyon, France
  • 1974-1979: Assistant Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Université Catholique de Lyon, France
  • Oct. 1979: University Lecturer – Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
  • Oct. 1985: University Lecturer 3. Degree, Faculty of Humanities, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
  • Oct. 1987: University Lecturer 4. Degree, Faculty of Humanities, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
  • 1980-1987: Head of the "German Department“, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
  • July 1989: Assistant Professor/Private Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, Free University of Berlin, Germany
  • Oct. 1989: University Lecturer 5. Degree, Faculty of Humanities, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
  • July 1991: Professor 1. Degree, Faculty of Humanities, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
  • Oct. 1991: Professor 2. Degree, Faculty of Humanities, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
  • Winter Term 1993/94: Substitute Professorship African Politics, Faculty of Political Science, Free University of Berlin, Germany
  • Summer Term 1994: Substitute Professorship African Politics, Faculty of Political Science, Free University of Berlin, Germany
  • Winter Term 1994/95: Substitute Professorship African Politics, Faculty of Political Science, Free University of Berlin, Germany
  • 1995-1999: Evaluator (GTZ, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Hessian Ministry of Economy, Transport, Technology and European Affairs, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (German Development Institute), Heinrich- Böll-Foundation);
  • Private Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, Free University of Berlin, Germany
  • Build-up of the Foundation AfricAvenir in Douala, Cameroon
  • Summer Term 2000 – Winter Term 2002: DAAD-Visting Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Free University of Berlin, Germany

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Research Focus and Topics

1973-1979 - Université de Lyon II, France, Seminar for History, Professor Maurice Garden

  • 1973-1979 - Université de Lyon II, Seminar for History, Professor Maurice Garden
  • Centre of economical and social history of the Lyon region, Laboratory associated with CNRS, Professor Maurice Garden
  • International Committee for the History of World War II, President: Henri Michel;
  • field of research: German international politics and the African policy of the Third Reich, Africa during World War II

1979-1992 Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon

  • Senior Researcher of the interdisciplinary research group: „The German time in Cameroon“ (Souvenirs de l’époque allemande au Cameroun)
  • African policies of the two German states

1994-1999: AfricAvenir, Douala, Cameroon

  • Set-up of a research establishment focusing on development politics
  • Set-up and supervision of the postgraduate program for the set-up of the „Institute for Development, International Cooperation and Peace“ of the Foundation AfricAvenir in Douala (main focus of the doctoral theses: development cooperation, process of democratisation, media and democracy, crisis prevention, crisis resolution)
  • relations between African and European NGOs
  • Applied technologies (Angewandte Technologien) in civil engineering and transportation (in cooperation with the Faculty of Political Science of the Free University of Berlin and the Faculty of Engineering and Transportation of the Technical University of Berlin)
  • Set-up of the program „Institution and Capacity Building and Extension of Educational Activities in Development Policy, Appropriate Technology, Democratisation, Human Rights And Conflict Prevention in West and Central Africa“ and search for partnerships

1993-1999: Free University of Berlin and other instiutions

  • Development efficiency in the international cooperation with African countries
  • Crisis prevention, crisis resolution and the role of development cooperation
  • Postgraduate program of the Foundation AfricAvenir-Douala in cooperation with the Free University of Berlin
  • Research project developed in cooperation with Dr. Barbara Strohschein: The politically and scientifically steered depreciation of the enemy in violent conflicts – comparative study of Kosovo and Ruanda for the formulation of a value-establishing concept of crisis prevention and mediation
  • Scheduled: research project in cooperation with Dr. Mader, Peace Center Burg Schlaining: the impact of the security policy of the EU for the security of the states of the South, in particulyr of the African states

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Consultancy

Consultancy and practical implemention of activities of development politics

  • Evaluation of the development cooperation of Hessian organisations in Cameroon, 1994/95 (study and assignment on site)
  • Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Sankt Augustin
  • Evaluation of the project Political Education West Africa (PBWA
  • Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Togo ) of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Sankt Augustin 1995, (study and assignment on site)
  • Crisis prevention by means of emergency assistance and the development cooperation in Ruanda – study on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, 1996 (study)
  • Consultancy for the implementaion of measures of crisis prevention in GTZ-Projects of development cooperation in Ruanda, Berlin/Eschborn, 1997 (assignment on site: 4 months)
  • Modes and prospects of traditional mechnisms of conflict resolution in Africa and recommendations of action for the GTZ, 1999 (study)
  • Expo 2000: Africa Hall, accompanying program: Begleitprogramm: Africa’s departure/decampment (Afrika im Aufbruch), 1999 (study)

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Other Activities

Schriftsteller und Dramaturg

  • Writer and dramatic adviser (Dramaturg)
  • 1981-1991 President of the cameroonian writers’s association (Association des Poètes et Ecrivains Camerounais APEC)
  • 1985-1991 Vice President of the the writers’s association of Central African States (Association des Ecrivains de l’Afrique Centrale AEAC)
  • 2000 founder of the Culture-Ltd Multiservices Communication SARL, Douala
  • 2001 board member, African Peace and Education Association
  • 2002 member of the administrative board, Association for Copy Rights for Writers and Gesellschaft für Urheberrecht für Schriftsteller und Dramatic Advisers, Yaoundé