Sylvain Djache Nzefa

Biographie

Sylvain Djache Nzefa, a Cameroonian architect and urban planner who graduated from Nantes in 1992, is the founder and general coordinator of the Route des Chefferies, a programme based in Bafoussam dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Cameroon’s cultural heritage. A specialist in the architecture of the chiefdoms of the West, he is the author of several books, including “Les chefferies bamiléké dans l’enfer du modernisme” (1994) and “Les civilisations du Cameroun” (2012). He was the chief curator of the exhibition “Sur la route des chefferies du Cameroun. From the Visible to the Invisible” at musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in 2022. He is involved in the ProHumStra project.