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From Cameroon to Paris, Montreal and Maine, Kingston and finally Toronto, Nelkas Kwemo’s journey, both for himself and his family, is borderline surreal.

It’s definitely inspiring.

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As Kwemo recalled Monday, days after he made his CFL debut in Toronto’s 23-22 comeback win over visiting B.C., it was his dad, who was born in Cameroon, who headed to France to study.

His mom would eventually leave Cameroon for France where Nelkas would be born.

Paris is Kwemo’s birthplace, but it would be Montreal where he’d grow up, embrace the culture and begin a path that led him to the CFL when the Argos used their second-round pick (18th overall) to select Kwemo in this past May’s selection.

He spent four years at Queen’s after Kwemo enrolled in a prep school based in Maine.

Given his cultural background, soccer was the first sport Kwemo would pick up.

It wasn’t until high school at Collège Sainte-Anne de Lachine that Kwemo was exposed to football.