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Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalists' petitions to the United Nations, one of the largest collections of political documents written by African women during the decolonization era, as well as archival research and oral interviews, this work shows how UDEFEC transcended ethnic, class, education and social divides, and popularized nationalism in both urban and rural areas through the Trust Territories of the Cameroons under French and British administration. Foregrounding issues such as economic autonomy and biological and agricultural fertility, UDEFEC politics wove anti-imperial democracy and notions of universal human rights into locally rooted political cultures and histories. UDEFEC's history sheds light on the essential components of women's successful political mobilization in Africa, and contributes to the discussion of women's involvement in nationalist movements in formerly colonized territories.
Vestiges
(2013)
The poems in this collection are adequate, with great lines. The rhythm is stimulating to all the five senses thanks to the use of multiple images. A lot of imagery in Vestiges gives a picture of a war front after a ferocious battle. The objects, animals, and images in the poems disorient and lead the reader to focusing on putting flesh to the bones than just getting the juice of the poems... The rhythm more than anything else carries the reader through this chaotic tableau painted in Vestiges. In a way, this comes across as a substantiation of the poet's vision of our world and an explanation as to why he considers this collection as a skeleton; and precisely skeletons left by the ravages of war. Is the poet's world and ours a field of ruins and topsy-turvydom to which we are all blind? The answer is yours.
This rich conversational auto-biography tells the story of the political life of Ndeh Ntumazah who was born in Mankon in 1926, spent the best part of his life suffering and sacrificing for the freedom of Cameroon, and died in London on January 21, 2010, at the age of 83, as President of the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC). Ntumazah was a political activist for nearly 60 years. He joined the UPC around 1950 and remained a militant of the party until his demise. When the UPC was banned in French Cameroon in 1955, he was advised by his comrades to create another party in the Southern Cameroons, which would be the UPC in disguise. The party was called 'One Kamerun Movement - OK', with Ndeh Ntumazah as its President. Following its banning, the UPC started a war of liberation in French Cameoon, so Ntumazah from the safety of Southern Cameroons, liaised with his comrades in French Cameroon to carry out their underground operations. Ndeh Ntumazah left Cameroon to seek political asylum abroad in 1962. He stayed in Ghana, Guinea, Algeria and finally in Britain where he spent most of his time sensitising the world about the plight of Cameroon using various avenues like writing, conferences and deputations. Ntumazah is dead, but he lives on because his life stands out as a point of focus.
Vortragsmanuskript zu Neukamerun. Die dazu passenden Bilder aus dem Kolonialen Bildarchiv der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft sind online zu sehen unter: http://www.ilissafrica.de/vk/?q=Koch%20Kamerun&c=dkg
Die Nummer des jeweiligen Bildes ist die erste Zahl in dem Feld "Text auf dem Bild".
Der Verfasser „C. Koch“ ist identisch mit dem in den 30er Jahren bekannten Kolonialschriftsteller Carl W. H. Koch (u.a. Im Tropenhelm, Im toten Busch, Das Lied des Landes). Carl W.H. Koch (1882-1970) war nach Aufenthalten in Shanghai und an der englischen Goldküste sowie nach einer kurzen Tätigkeit in der Zollabteilung der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft für die Süd-Kamerun-Gesellschaft am 1.10.1909 nach Kamerun gekommen, wo er am 8.2.1910 als Stationsleiter in Molundi fungierte. Er musste 1912 wieder zurück nach Deutschland reisen, wo er zunächst vergeblich versuchte, eine Arbeit zu finden. In dieser Zeit hielt er mehrere Vorträge.
1913 war er wieder in Kamerun, ab Kriegsausbruch als Soldat, ging den Weg in die Internierung. Nach mehreren Fluchtversuchen landete er in englischer Gefangenschaft, aus der er 1919 entlassen wurde. Von 1924-1930 war er selbständiger Farmer in Angola. Von 1934-1938 leitete er als Direktor die Kolonialschule Witzenhausen.