Fabien Eboussi Boulaga

Fabien Eboussi Boulaga was born on the seventeenth of January 1934 at the village of Bafia, in the Center Region of the French Cameroon, the son of a Cameroonian Bafia Catholic family. He was raised in the principal Bafia Catholic community of the late-colonial Cameroon.

He entered the Society of Jesus at Lyon in 1955 — and completed the principal Jesuit philosophical-and-theological formation at the principal Jesuit seminaries of Chantilly and Lyon from 1955 to 1965. He was ordained a Jesuit priest at the principal Lyon Jesuit Province in 1969 and completed the doctorate in philosophy at the principal University of Lyon in 1968.

He was hired in 1971 by the principal Department of Philosophy at the Université de Yaoundé in Cameroon as a junior lecturer — and held the principal Université de Yaoundé philosophy-faculty position from 1971 to 1991.

He published the principal La Crise du Muntu: Authenticité africaine et philosophie at the principal Présence Africaine Press at Paris in 1977 — the principal foundational document of the principal post-1977 Cameroonian-and-Pan-African critical-and-post-ethnophilosophy philosophical-academic community.

He published the principal Christianisme sans fétiche: Révélation et domination at the principal Présence Africaine Press at Paris in 1981 — the principal foundational critical-philosophical-and-theological post-colonial African-Christian-theological academic critique.

He was a founding member of the principal Association des philosophes africains at Yaoundé from 1973 and a principal post-1973 Pan-African philosophical-academic community organiser.

He was named the principal director of the principal Inademe philosophical-and-critical commercial-publishing community at Yaoundé from 1993 to 2010.

He was a principal mentor of two generations of post-colonial Cameroonian-and-Pan-African-philosophical-and-academic students at the Université de Yaoundé across his twenty-year academic-faculty tenure.

He died at Yaoundé, Cameroon on the twenty-fifth of September 2018 of natural causes, at eighty-four.

He is honored here as the author of La Crise du Muntu.