Alice Nkom is a Cameroonian lawyer, well known for her advocacy towards decriminalization of homosexuality in Cameroon.[1][2][3] A lawyer since 1969, she was the first black woman called to the bar in Cameroon, at the age of 24.[4]
In January 2011, she was threatened with arrest by a representative of Cameroon's Ministry of Communication after her organization, the Association to Defend Homosexuals, was awarded a 300,000 Euro grant by the European Union.[5] Later that year, she represented Jean-Claude Roger Mbede, a man imprisoned for three years for "homosexuality and attempted homosexuality" following a series of SMS messages to a male acquaintance,[5] and who was named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.[6]