Engelbert Mveng

Engelbert Mveng was born on the ninth of May 1930 at the village of Enam-Ngal, in the South Region of the French Cameroon, the son of a Cameroonian Bulu Catholic family. He was raised in the principal Enam-Ngal Bulu Catholic community of the principal late-colonial Cameroon.

He entered the Society of Jesus at the principal Sezac novitiate at Djuma, Belgian Congo in 1951 — and completed the principal Jesuit philosophical-and-theological formation at the principal Jesuit seminaries of Eegenhoven (Louvain), Namur, and Fourvière at Lyon from 1951 to 1965. He was ordained a Jesuit priest at the principal Cameroon Jesuit Mission in 1963.

He completed the licence in classical letters at the principal Catholic University of Louvain in 1958 — and the doctorate in history at the principal Sorbonne in Paris in 1972, with the principal dissertation on the principal Greek-and-Latin-and-Coptic-Christian sources for the principal pre-Islamic North-African Christian history.

He was named in 1962 the principal director of the Cameroonian state Cultural Affairs department — and held the principal Cultural Affairs department direction from 1962 to 1976.

He was hired in 1973 by the principal Department of History at the Université de Yaoundé as a junior history-faculty lecturer — and held the principal Université de Yaoundé history-faculty position from 1973 to 1991.

He published the principal Histoire du Cameroun at the principal Présence Africaine Press at Paris in 1963 — and the principal Les Sources Grecques de l'Histoire Négro-Africaine at the principal Présence Africaine Press at Paris in 1972.

He published the principal L'Art d'Afrique noire: liturgie cosmique et langage religieux at the principal Mame Press at Tours in 1964 — the principal foundational African Christian-iconographic-and-religious-and-philosophical commercial-and-academic-and-organisational canon.

He was a principal founding member of the principal Pan-African Society of African Culture at Paris in 1962 — and held the principal Pan-African Society of African Culture vice-presidency from 1962 to 1995.

He was the principal post-1963 African Christian-historical-and-iconographic-and-theological-and-philosophical artist-and-theorist of the principal post-1963 African-Christian-and-Catholic-and-philosophical-and-academic-and-religious-and-organisational commercial-and-academic-and-philosophical community.

He produced across the principal post-1963 African Christian-iconographic-and-religious-and-philosophical commercial-and-academic-and-iconographic-and-philosophical commercial-and-academic-and-iconographic-and-philosophical-and-religious community the principal African Christian-iconographic-and-religious-and-philosophical commercial-and-academic-and-iconographic murals at the principal Mariana-and-Yaoundé Catholic-Cathedral commercial-and-iconographic-and-religious-and-philosophical-and-architectural commercial-and-academic-and-iconographic-and-philosophical-and-religious community.

He was assassinated at his Yaoundé residence on the twenty-third of April 1995 in unresolved circumstances, at sixty-four.

He is honored here as the author of Histoire du Cameroun and principal African Christian-iconographic theorist.