The untold story of a child from Batibo: Undoing German colonialism in Cameroon
This is the English version of this podcast.
You can also listen to the versions in French and Fulfulde [below].
Credits
Author: Mikael Assilkinga
Script editing: Sophie Schasiepen with support from Andri Burnett
Narrators: Tshiamo Moretlwe and Mamello Makhetha
Producer / editor: Andri Burnett
Concept and executive production: Sophie Schasiepen
Acknowledgments
Special thanks go to Richard Tsogang Fossi, Holger Stoecker, Yann LeGall, Katharina Stötzel for commenting on an earlier version of the script. Mikael Assilkinga also thanks Christian Vogel and Jonatan Kurzwelly. His colleagues working at the Anthropological Collection. The Blumenbach Collection, participants of the project “Sensitive Provenances” at the University of Göttingen and the Ethnological Museum of Hamburg.
Tariha je Ɓingel Batibo je yaccaka: Ittugo koloninkeejum Jaaman nder lesdi Cameroon
Ɗum wani podcast ɗemng ɗo je ɗemngal Fulfulde. Kadin a wawan nonude be ɗemnɗi Faransiire e Ingilishi.
Ƴaamannde
Binndowo: Mikael Assilkinga
Wa'inowo taalol: Sophie Schasiepen e mballugo Andri Burnett
Dokkowo habar:
Tiggoɗo / wa'inowo: Andri Burnett
Tiggoɗo Mawɗo: Sophie Schasiepen
Yattore to Richard Tsogang Fossi, Holger Stoecker, Yann LeGall, Katharina Stötzel daw wo'ingo ɗarewal man je aranol. Mikael Assilkinga kadin yettini Christian Vogel e Jonatan Kurzwelly. Bandiraɓe makko kuwoɓe ha Kawral Anthropology. Suɓotiral Blumenbach, yahiroɓe matotiral man "kujeji cahiɗe" ha Jami'are Gottingam be Saare Tariha Ethnology je Hamburg.
References / Hujjaji Timmaɗe
Records kept in the Archives of the Museum of Ethnology Hamburg, the Archives of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, the Federal Archives in Berlin, reports published in the colonial newspaper Deutsches Kolonialblatt and the database of the project The Restitution of Knowledge, accessible via the repositorium of Technical University of Berlin./ Ɗereeji tonngeteeɗi ɗi ɓe sigi haa Sigorde Anndal Aadi Neɗɗaaku Yimɓe Suudu Taariha Hamburg, Sigorde Anndal Aadi Neɗɗaaku Yimɓe Suudu Taariha Berlin, Sigorde Bundeshaa Berlin e rahootoji lollinaaɗi haa jarida koloninko'en Deutsches Kolonialblatt e ɗereeji binndaaɗi dow kuugal Doggitki Anndal, keɓeteeɗum e repositorium jee Technische haa Jaami'a Berlin.
Authors' collective, Andrea Meyer and Bénédicte Savoy (Coord.), Atlas of Absence. Cameroon's Cultural Heritage in Germany (Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2023).
Chem-Langhee, Bongfen. “The Origin of the Southern Cameroons House of Chiefs”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 16, Nº 4 (1983):653-673.
Eugen Zintgraff’s memoirs, Nord-Kamerun (1895).
Fossi, Richard Tsogang. „‚Du bist wie ein Küchlein in mein Haus gekommen, Weißer…': Intermediale Erinnerung an eine transnationale Männerfreundschaft im kolonialen Kamerun“, in Koloniale Verbindungen – transkulturelle Erinnerungstopografien. Das Rheinland in Deutschland und das Grasland Kameruns, ed. by Albert Gouaffo and Stefanie Michels (Transcript Verlag, 2019), 111-128.
Unpacking Colonialism: Discussing human remains in German Collections, online exhibition, 2023.