Kamto, Maurice

LC control no.	n 87131249
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kamto, Maurice *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Cameroon
Birth date	1954-02-15
Place of birth	Bafoussam (Cameroon)
Affiliation	Mouvement pour la renaissance du Cameroun University of Yaoundé
Profession or occupation	Law teachers Politicians Presidential candidates Essayists Poets
Found in	His Pouvoir et droit en Afrique noire, 1987: t.p. (Maurice Kamto; docteur en droit; chargé de cours, Univ. de Yaoundé) Repenser et reconstruire l'opposition camerounaise, 2014: page 321 (Professeur Maurice Kamto; agrégé de droit; president, Mouvement pour la renaissance du Cameroun (MRC)) Maurice Kamto, 2019: page 21 (born 15 February 1954 in Bafoussam) pages 15-16 (founded the MRC (Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun) in August 2012) page 18 (announced candidacy for president in October 2018) Wikipedia, January 22, 2020 (Maurice Kamto; Cameroonian politician, founder of the MRC; he was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations 1999-2016; his contribution to the negotiations to resolve the dipute with Nigeria over the Bakassi peninsula led to his appointment as Minister-Delegate to the Minister of Justice in 2004; he resigned from the government in November 2011, and formed a new opposition party, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC); he ran as presidential candidate for the MRC in 2018; was declared runner-up to incumbent president Paul Biya with 14 percent of the votes; Kamto challenged the official results and declared himself winner of the election; on 26 January 2019 he and 200 of his supportes were arrested and locked up in Kondengui prison in Yaounde; he and other leaders of his party were freed on October 5, 2019, a day after the end of the Major National Dialogue) Sous la cendre les étoiles, 2021: title page (Maurice Kamto) back flap (Cameroonian politician; essayist and poet; author of L'urgence de la pensée : réflexions sur une précondition du développement en Afrique; this is his third collection of poems)
Associated language	fre