Famous People with Name Samba

Samba N'Diaye            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Samba N'Diaye: is a French-Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Samba Diawara            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Samba Diawara: is a football player from Mali. The defender currently plays for R.O.C. de Charleroi-Marchienne in Belgium.

Samba Kanoute            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Samba Kanoute: is a French footballer who plays as a defender but is without a club after being released by Hereford United of League Two.

Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta: is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the most famous contemporary African artists, with his works being included in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A large amount of his paintings are also found in The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of jea Pigozzi. He has been invited to participate in the 2007 Venice Biennale. His paintings almost always include text in French and Lingala, commenting on life in Africa and the modern world. Chéri Samba lives in Kinshasa and Paris. In 1975 he opened his own studio. At the same time he also became an illustrator for the entertainment magazine Bilenge Info. Working both as a billboard painter and a comic strip artist, Samba used the styles of both genres when he began making his paintings on sacking cloth. He borrowed the use of “word bubbles” from comic strip art which allowed him to add not only narrative but also commentary into his compositions thus giving him his signature style of combining paintings with text. His work earned him some local fame. In 2007, curator Robert Storr invited Samba to participate in the 52nd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, entitled “Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense”, and described by The Huffington Post as 'certainly "the exhibition" of this new Century'.

Francky Sembolo            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Francky Sembolo: is a Republic of the Congo players. Now retired from playing, He is a member of the Congo national football team from 1991 to 1000.

Yven Rochild Victor Moyo            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Yven Rochild Victor Moyo: is a Congolese footballer who plays as a defender for Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala. He has represented the Congo and made his debut as a twenty-year old in 2004.