Albert Gouaffo is a literary and cultural scholar at the University of Dschang in western Cameroon and researches the culture of remembrance, post-colonialism and German-African literature. He completed his doctorate in 1997 at Saarland University on the experience of being an outsider, as examined in francophone African literature in the German-language and cultural context. He was also a Georg Forster Fellow at Saarland University from 2004 to 2006, where he subsequently completed his Habilitation. With a wide range of publications in German, French and English, he promotes intercultural German studies and the examination of the German colonial period in Cameroon. As the founder of a German studies journal and Vice President of the association "German Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa", he is also committed to networking German studies on the continent. In 2025, he was awarded the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize.
Similarities and differences: An interim assessment of the debate on the looting and restitution of Cameroonian cultural property in Germany; Décentrer la question des restitutions : l’exemple des biens culturels issus de contextes coloniaux en Afrique face aux micro-histoires régionales; Whose Voices? On Power, Terminology and the Definition of Community : A Postscript