Alice Nkom

Alice Nkom

Alice Nkom is a Cameroonian lawyer, well known for her advocacy of decriminalization of homosexuality in Cameroon. She is the only lawyer defending those jailed or prosecuted in her country for same sex activity. She studied law in Toulouse and has been a lawyer in Douala since 1969. At the age of 24, she was the first black woman called to the bar in Cameroon.

 
 
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