MICHELLE FRANCINE NGONMO

Originally from Cameroon, Michelle Ngonmo arrived in Italy as a child and soon discovered she was fascinated by the world of communication, going on to take a first-level degree in multimedia and audio-visual communication and a second-level degree in modern languages.

After a number of internships abroad, including experience at the Ministry of Culture in Brussels and the University of Cameroon, Michelle Ngonmo returned to Italy to work as press office for the first multicultural web network, ALLTV. In 2015, Ms Ngonmo founded Afro Fashion, a cultural association of fashion that today has more than eighty members and holds an invaluable database of more than 1000 Afro designers all over the world, with a satellite location in Cameroon.

Michelle Francine Ngonmo is a talent scout of excellence for the present and future Afro designers in Italy and abroad and an expert creator of events such as the Afro Fashion Wek which she has directed and presented for five years now. Ms Ngonmo is involved in various cultural projects as director of All-TV and is President of the Association of African students of Ferrara. She coordinates the fashion project CAMon! in Cameroon. She has been and still is a speaker at numerous events and is a visiting professor in Italian and foreign universities.

She founded together with Stella Jean and Edward Buchanan the Movement “Do Black Lives Matter In Italian Fashion?”; she developed and organized the project, “Made in Italy is not a colour: we are made in Italy”, an ongoing series of exhibitions and buying opportunities to valorize the work of Afroitalian designers. She is the coordinator of the LABADOUALA’s Fashion Design department.