{"id":197939,"date":"2025-05-12T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-tributes-pour-in-for-zeitz-mocaa-ceo-and-chief-curator-koyo-kouoh\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:20:14","slug":"cameroon-tributes-pour-in-for-zeitz-mocaa-ceo-and-chief-curator-koyo-kouoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-tributes-pour-in-for-zeitz-mocaa-ceo-and-chief-curator-koyo-kouoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Tributes Pour In for Zeitz MOCAA CEO and Chief Curator Koyo Kouoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Koyo Kouoh, CEO and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, has died in Switzerland. She was 57.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town in South Africa, confirmed her passing but gave no cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">Zeitz MOCAA, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/zeitzmocaa.museum\/with-grace-and-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>, said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;It is with profound sorrow that the Trustees of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) announce the sudden passing of Koyo Kouoh, our beloved Executive Director and Chief Curator, on Saturday, 10 May 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Kouoh, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505120311.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koyo Kouoh, CEO and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, has died in Switzerland. She was 57. The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town in South Africa, confirmed her passing but gave no cause of death. Zeitz MOCAA, in a statement, said: &#8220;It is with profound sorrow that the Trustees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670276:2668d06aa4696325027c925cbb676ca9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,7213,6510,51329,51331,51330,14641,257,10952,254,10951,51328],"class_list":["post-197939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-ceo","tag-chief","tag-curator","tag-kouoh","tag-koyo","tag-mocaa","tag-news","tag-pour","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tributes","tag-zeitz"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670276:2668d06aa4696325027c925cbb676ca9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}