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Veye Tatah

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Veye Tatah
Born1971
NationalityCameroonian

Veye Wirngo Tatah (born c.1971) is a Cameroonian computer scientist and journalist who lives in Germany. She is an advocate for Africa who has received an Order of Merit from the German state.

Life

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Tatah was born in about 1971 and she arrived in Germany in 1991. She was born in Cameroon but became a German citizen in 2002.[1] She worked for over six years as a computer science research assistant with the Technical University of Dortmund. She then became an IT consultant managing projects and particularly those concerned with inter-cultural communication. Tatah owns a catering company called Kilimanjaro Food.

Tatah has two children.[1] She has also set a number of initiatives including the Learning and integration mobile app African-LIM, the "African Women's Network" and Africa Positive.[2]

Tatah endeavours to increase international understanding.[1] On 25 February 2010 Tatah received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her special social engagement.[3] She has been involved in the training of thirty journalists from Gambia at the Erich-Brost-Institut in 2019. The journalists were being offered the purpose of reporting on migration.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Africa is not a Country and Black is a Colour, handelsblatt.com, Retrieved 6 April 2016
  2. ^ Veye Tatah die Frau hinter dem Namen Africa Positive In: Maischna Magazin
  3. ^ Veye Tatah mit Bundesverdienstkreuz geehrt In: Afrika Bildung
  4. ^ "30 Young Journalists Trained on Migration Reporting |". 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2020-11-18.