Goddy Leye is a video artist and founder of artist-run-initiative Artbakery (Douala), which operates a network of artist residencies and aids young artists with their professional development. He studied at Pascal Kenfack studio and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. He participated in many solo and collective exhibitions in Douala and abroad, including Africa Remix. For the past decade, he has been busy exploring his memory by painting and drawing. In his practice he removes old signs and symbols from their initial settings and place them in a totally new environment, thus providing room for the expansion of meaning. He also curated Bessengue City and Exit Tour. Email: goddyleye@hotmail.com
Hervé Youmbi is a visual artist based in Douala. He is a member of Cercle Kapsiki, a collective created in 1998 by five artists (Blaise Bang, Salifou Lindou, Jules Wokam, Hervé Yamguen, Hervé Youmbi) with the specific aim of producing urban interventions and encouraging debate on the role of art in urban space. The collective deals with artistic practices that interact with the local population and the urban environment. Hervé Youmbi has also participated in the project Scénographies Urbaines in Douala. He trained at the Ecole Superiore des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg. He is currently involved in the project Jevais, training young people in visual arts in the neighbourhoods of Douala. Email:herveyoumbi@yahoo.fr
Lionel Manga is a writer and cultural critic based in Douala. He has an ongoing collaboration with the French artist Philippe Mouillon and the Laboratoire Sculpture Urbaine/local.contemporain. Together with Mouillon he recently realized the work Bend Skins, a collection of life stories of 500 motorbike-taxi-drivers on the occasion of SUD – Salon Urbain de Douala in December 2007. He recently published the book L'ivresse du papillon, SARL Edimontagne, France, 2008. He also works as a columnist for the newspaper Le Messager in Cameroon. Email: lionelmanga@yahoo.fr
Achillekà Komguem lives and works between Douala and Yaoundé. He graduated in visual arts at the University of Yaoundé I. His work is an intimate exploration of borders. In 2004, he was given a Unesco award for the promotion of culture and the arts. In the same year, he was also received an award from the magazine Express international for being one of the 25 people who helped Cameroon evolve. He has exhibited in Cameroon, Senegal, Mali, Benin, US, France, India, Canada, China, Switzerland. He is the director and founding editor of the bilingual English/French art magazine DiARTgonale. Email: diartgonale@yahoo.fr
Achille Edouard Atina Tah is an aspiring curator, interested in art in public space. He graduated in 2005 in Philosophy at the University of Rome and began in 2006 a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Douala. He has worked since 2005 as a tv/radio and press journalist at the Maison Catholique de la Communication Sociale – MACACOS in Douala. Email: achta25@yahoo.fr
Ruth Colette Afane Belinga is an art historian and artist (painter and video artist) working between Douala and Yaoundé. She graduated in arts and art history at the University of Yaoundé I and her research focus is Cameroonian contemporary art, including “Study on the image of women in post-colonial painting in Yaoundé: from an aesthetical, sociological and anthropological point of view” and “The evolution of 20th century painting in Cameroon”. She is currently assistant curator at Artbakery in Douala. She writes for the Cameroonian art magazine "DIARTgonale" and is part of its editorial board. She also writes for the Italian art magazine Africa e Mediterraneo. Email: