1. Mr. Issa NGANDJI-NYAPHAGA
P.O. Box.: 30776 Yaoundé. Cameroon
Tél/fax/office: +(237) 676 493 106 - 22 22 56 71
+1 646 552 9893 - ​nyaphagart@gmail.com
www.hitip.org
Artist, Human Rights Activist & Film
EDUCATION
Master in French Literature. International Development, ​Summa Cum Laude
November 1995
UNIVERSITY 1- Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Science. DOUALA, Cameroon
Honors/Awards:
• (Honorable Award Winning Story, documentary. ​"The Power of pen and
Ink"​ - (3MN Eng.), by S. Rousmaniere - 2010 Three Minute Film Festival Santa Fe. New
Mexico - US)
• -Award Winning Speech at French Parliament on June 16, 2001 on the
50th Anniversary of the UNHCR of the Geneva Convention - Paris, France.
• Francis Greenbeger Fellowship / Art OMI 2007. Ghent, New York -
• 2014 - Tribal African Humanitarian award - Tikar / N'ditam village -
Cameroon
Reporter & Cartoonist 1990 to 2007
LE MESSAGER POPOLI DOUALA, CAMEROON
• Published over 5,000 cartoons, drawings, illustrations, graphic news and comics in the
local and regional newspapers and magazine, reaching a large number of readers in the
cities of Cameroon and Central Africa.
Documentary Films:
2014 – “Art Factor of Development” (52mn/ Eng./Fren.) by Narcisse Sandjon – CMR
2014 – “Upon The Fragile Shore” – Theater play - Remote Acting – U.S.
2013 – “Radio Taboo” (52mn/ Eng./Fren.) Sophie Rousmaniere, Santa Fe
2012 - “The Power of Pen and Ink” (3 mn/ Eng./Fren.) by Sophie Rousmaniere, Santa Fe
2010 - “L’Arbre Qui Cache La Forêt.” (52 mn/Eng./French.) by Issa Nyaphaga
2009 - “HITIP - Ibrahim’s Dream” - (17mn/ Eng./Fren.) by Issa Nyaphaga, Santa Fe
2008 - “ The Resistants du 9​th​
Art” ( 52 mn/ in French) by Nicoletta Fagiolo – France
2007 - “In the belly of the beast” Documentary co-directed with Nicoletta Fagiolo.
2006 - “ Issa Nyaphaga, Artist, Actuvist & Humanist” (18 mn English) by Chris Hill –
USA
2004 - “ The Pen in Exile” Documentary (20 mn/ Frech, Eng. Subt) By Niki Fagiolo -
Italy

2. Bachelor in Business Management​, Dean’s Honor Roll (Top 1%)
November 1990
UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE 1 CAMEROON
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Human Rights Consulting: Investigated for​ Amnesty International
(SANDVIKEN) - Sweden, on the case of Jean-Claude Mbédé; a 31 year old man
sentenced for 3 and an half years for sending a text to another man: "I Love You!" -
Published and article that brought awareness of the international Human Rights
organization on this case and Jean-Claude was free and died while in probation.
- Investigated for FREEMUSE (Freedom Of Musical Expression,) to release of Lapiro de
Mbanga, a musician and songwriter who was sentenced for 3 years in prison in Cameroon for
composing a song against the head of state.
- Advisor for (RSF) Reporter Without Borders, France - (CPJ) Committee to Protect
Journalists, USA - Network of (FD) Free Dimensional, New York - USA. Participated on
improving the live conditions of journalists, artist, writers and activist in danger - freed or in
incarceration.
- Collaborated with the Freedom House, Lawyer's Rights Watch (Canada), the US State
Department, United Nations' (OHCHR) and Human Dignity Trust to secure the lived of two
lawyers and Human Rights Defenders (Michel Togue & Alice Nkom) in Cameroon.
- Community Organizing: Co-founded of HITIP and successfully administrated more
than 10 teams on international missions in urban and rural areas in Central Africa and in Europe.
• International Scholar for: Contemporary African Art, Social Justice,
Human Rights, Cultural Diversity, Post & contemporary colonial African studies.
• Program Manager: “Football Spirit In The Jungle,” an innovative
community based project for the underserved populations in remote areas. Focused on
organizing Soccer/Football to conflict resolution. Sport and social entrepreneurship
development, as a model for fighting high isolation rural community in Mbam & Kim
region.
• Program Strategy: Pioneered to establish 1000 Gardens in Africa for The
Slow Food Foundation (Italy,) by organizing partnership between local farmers and
public schools in 7 locations in Cameroon. This achievement has increased outreach of
the Slow Food program; and impacted other areas in the grassroots communities in
Central Africa.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Oversaw the collection and quality control of
health micro data necessary for designing, implementing and evaluating donors and
governments’ containment strategies against the medicine-resistant strain of malaria in
Cameroon.

3. • Policy Advisor: Advised international foundations on mitigation strategies
and local understanding of children, female, albino and LGBTQ rights in Cameroon and
Central Africa, on a committee tasked with rationalizing the Cameroonian government’s
response to the social challenges posed by an upsurge of the vulnerable populations such
as youth, AIDS orphans.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Founder and Executive Director March 2002 - Sept 2014
CO-DIRECTE INTERNATIONAL FOR THE TIKAR PEOPLE (HITIP / CAMEROON)
• Program director of Radio Taboo, a community radio station and
development project in Cameroon to address human rights issues including public health,
women's issues, gay rights, and education for 1million people in 8 languages. Radio Taboo is a
documentary story awarded by National Geographic CrossRoads in Washington, DC.
• Administer a staff of 10 and over 100 volunteers involved in providing
gender-sensitive, public healthcare, education and community development services to
disadvantaged populations in central and western Cameroon.
• Manage implementation and closing of projects such as handicap mobility,
vaccination campaigns, and recruiting of volunteer physicians throughout the country and
overseas for Global Health programs.
• Worked as part of a team to secure projects funding ranging from $80K to
$170K.
Consultant / Training Department, Fall, Winter & Spring October - May 2009 - 2014
SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS & SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE -
• Taught Art, Social Justice and Creative Thinking 15 weeks of nagging a
group of students to create artworks that address social justice an and critical issues in their
environment.
Project coordinator & Special Guest Spring 2009 - Winter 2013
SANTA FE PREP SCHOOL
• Trained and lead a Social Forum on (Cultural Diversity, Civil Liberty and
Global/local Community Organizing) for pre-high school student leaders in the state of
New Mexico.
Project coordinator & Special Guest Spring 2009 - Winter 2013
SANTA FE PREP SCHOOL
• Trained and led a Social Forum on (Cultural Diversity, Civil Liberty and
Global/local Community Organizing) for pre-high school student leaders in the state of
New Mexico.

4. Co-director of Water For Social Peace March 2011 - June 2013
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION EVANSTON, IL
• Co-managed daily Water For Social Peace in Cameroon - public health,
and Water Sanitation program by the Rotary Foundation; and operated as a strategic link
between partners from governments, NGOs. the private sector and grassroots
communities.
Awarded project by the (Global Rotary Peace Award, Oct. 2012 in Berlin - Germany)
Bush Medicine Partnership Summers 2011 - 2013
WOMEN FUNDS MEDICAL INITIATIVE USA / CAMEROON
• Supervised more than 10 field campaigns of information and prevention
against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases for vulnerable female, youth
and Indigenous group living in rural zone in Africa.
Assistant Manager/ New Business Development Department September
2009 - Mai 2012
LUNIX FRIENDS SOLAR LIMBE,
Cameroon
• Authored an innovative $500K pilot project model of Agricultural Cooperative
to financing and business development services in Central Africa, which could become
an essential tool in International Development's strategy to address high indigenous
unemployment in the Developing World.
• Co-designed the concept of Low Powered Computer project built around
the use of innovative solar energy to empower technologies to provide basic education
for female populations.
Scholarship / Workshop, "World Aids Day" Winter 2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
- ALAFIA - A successful Life music performance for the World Aids Day to address the
issue of AIDS/HIV in Africa - Commissioned by the Art Department of the University of
Texas at Austin.
Regional Operations Manager/Central Africa Region Jan 2003 - Feb 2005
MALARIA
• Co-led a high campaign health and livelihood initiative involving multiple
partners, dispersed in 3 countries (Central Africa), and helped coordinate multiple inputs
from grassroots communities, regional and local governments.
• Initiated logistics for the targeted distribution of 15,000+ impregnated
mosquito nets, and administering of Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT’s) to

5. the most at-risk population of children under five, pregnant women and HIV/AIDS
patients.
• Supervised anemia data vaccination operations in affected areas to help
authorities and foundations design, implement and evaluate their containment strategy
against the medicine-resistant strains of malaria.
Assistant Project Manager/ Operations Department Sept 1998 - Nov 2001
FRANCE TERRE D'ASILE + UNHCR
FRANCE
• Directed removal Art Therapy workshops for more than 500 at risk youth
(child soldiers, disabled, and refugee children) at a first child rescue Human Rights
organization, acting under the guidance of UNHCR and the Minister of Social Affairs.
• Supervised the follow-up care of removed children in the areas of social
welfare and education; improving primary and vocational school graduation rates from
32 to 68% during tenure.
Special Guest,
2008 SERRANO PRODUCTION - Bilbao - Guest speaker / Public performance &
Exhibition of the first edition of the Festival Against Censorship
SKILLS
Languages: Fluent in English and French - “Tikar / Tribal”
Arabic / Written – Bamoun, Hausa, Fulani / 65% understood
- Credentials and additional materials upon request.