Christophe Ngalle Edimo was born in France but raised in Cameroon. He holds degrees in sciences from the University of Créteil in France and in literature from the University of Yaoundé  in Cameroon. He is a member of L'Afrique dessinée, an association growing out of a project concerning the health of African children, in which artists were asked to draw about education and children's health, with the goal of bringing  to a large audience the reality of Africans around the world.  In 2007, his short story, Enfants, drawn by Fifi Mukuna, was exhibited in the show African Comics, organized by Studio Museum in Harlem.  Malamine, un africain à Paris is his first book.