Thérèse Sita-Bella

She was born into the Beti tribe in southern Cameroon, and received her education from Catholic missionaries.

In the 1950s, after obtaining her baccalaureate from a school in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé, she went to Paris in order to continue her studies.

[2] From 1964 to 1965, Sita-Bella worked in France at the French newspaper La Vie Africane, which she co-created.

[4] Sita-Bella was considered to be a trailblazer and one of the rare women working in the film industry that was being dominated by men.

[5] The Sita Bella film hall at the Cameroon Cultural Centre was named after her.