At 13 years old, despite her mother's misgivings, she left for boarding school several hours away at the Collège Moderne de Jeunes Filles in Douala.
It was in this context that Matip wrote Ngonda, a semi-autobiographical work written in French, describing the life of a young woman in Cameroon.
[7] While the work is not explicitly revolutionary, it is imbued with a fundamentally feminist viewpoint and, notably, emphasizes the right of women to learn to read and write.
Matip subsequently set up a radio program, Les beaux Samedis, for young Cameroonians and served as its host.
She then studied arts and Protestant theology at the University of Montpellier and philosophy, psychology, and sociology at the Sorbonne, receiving a doctorate from the latter institution, with her thesis focusing on roles of African women.