Marie-Ann Yemsi (born 1963) is a German-Cameroonian curator, known for her efforts to promote African artists internationally.

As a child, her family moved frequently throughout Europe and Africa, and her father faced death threats for his political activity as a dissident in Cameroon.

She studied at Sciences Po, then obtained a master's in sociology of international relations from University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

[1] Then, in 2015, she drew notice for her work curating the exhibit Odyssées Africaines / African Odysseys at the Forest Cultural Center in Belgium.

In the exhibit, she examined the resurgence of history in the contemporary work of 17 artists from such countries as South Africa, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mozambique.