Samba, Emelda Ngufor

Emelda Ngufor Samba is senior lecturer and Head of the Performing Arts and Cinematography Section of the University of Yaounde I, and CEO of the Universal Language Training Centre (ULTC) in Nsam, Yaounde, Cameroon. Holder of a PhD from the University of Bayreuth, Germany in African Theatre and Drama, and a Higher Teacher’s Training Diploma in English Modern Letters from the Higher Teachers’ Training College, Yaounde Cameroon, she worked as teacher of English with the Ministry of Secondary Education in Cameroon for close to thirteen years and is now teaching Performing Arts and African Theatre at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. As coordinator of People Theatre and Cinema for Social Change, (PTCSC), she has run several workshops on theatre and social change with children, women, and farmers, in rural communities, centres for the disabled, rehabilitation centres for juveniles, prisons, secondary schools and universities.