Commissioner

Mr Denis NKWEBO

Biography

Commissioner

NKWEBO Denis

Journalist

NKWEBO Denis was born on 30 June 1971 in Bazou. He is married and is the father of five children.

Concerning his school and academic studies, he obtained his Baccalauréat A4 at Collège Meyon-Meyeme in Yaoundé in 1992. Then in 1996, he obtained the Professional Diploma in Journalism at the Nigeria Institute of Journalism in Lagos. In 2016, he attended the International Training Centre (CIF) in Turin, Italy, for a training course in Communication on International Labour Standards. He was a participant in the International Visitor Leadership Program – Investigative Journalism in 2012 in the United States and has won four national awards in newspaper journalism.

Professionally, he was respectively, President of the National Union of Journalists of Cameroon, Vice-President of the l’Union des Syndicats de presse d’Afrique centrale and member of the Steering Committee of the African Federation of Journalists. Denis Nkwebo began his career as a journalist-reporter at the daily Le Quotidien from 1997 to 1999, then at Dikalo from 2001 to 2003. He then became Editor-in-Chief of “Les Nouvelles du pays” from 2003 to 2005. He worked as a journalist at Mutations from 2005 to 2008, and then as a Correspondent for Jeuneafrique.com and Jeune Afrique in 2011. Since September 2006, he has been the Cameroon correspondent for the English-language service of Radio France Internationale. From May 2008 to September 2019, he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of “Le Jour”, Head of the Douala desk. Since September 2019, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of African Finder and he also taught editorial techniques at the Institut universitaire du Golfe de Guinée. On 19 February 2021, he was appointed Member of the Cameroon Human Rights Commission (CHRC).