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.
Seŋ n’a midini ahiogi na yikini ɓa Batibo na e midin ka edi duk kai zan: dû handa a na midini seŋ na zamangai zaw allemangai ezin wiidi dai na murdakai.
Credits
Auteur : Mikaél Assilkinga
Édition des textes : Sophie Schasiepen avec le soutien d'Andri Burnett
Traducteur et Intervenant: Daniel Azinaha
Productrice / éditrice : Andri Burnett
Concept et production exécutive : Sophie Schasiepen
Tesse gaini min ɓa an sini Richard Tsgang Fossi, tesse lai sini Holger Stoecker, Yann Legall, Katarina Stötzel, buri zinaidi war dû handa. Mikael Assilkinga aza tesse lai sini Christian Vogel gaini Jonathan Kurzwelly, edi dai na eda ezi sda an bono ktai wardi dilimi na yikidi ɓa Collection Blumenback. A za tesse lai, wiidi n’agai paŋ na ezi sda midini projet na yikini ɓa « Zak zaw wazagai na a yiɓasi, na nassarakai e milin midini afti di Afrik par », na a na war universite na Göttingen gaini muse na Hambourg.
Muktup na a zinapa kapai dû handa a tapa amai:
Muktup na a na gaini gidimi warni hlai zi gidimi na yikini ɓa muse na Hambourg, warni muse na Berlin na yikini ɓa Bundesarchiv. Dû zaw rapport na a na gaini dûhi warni journal na mididi pai na zamangai e simiti war afti na wiidi dai murdakai. Muktup zamai na zina pini dû handa a faara na wiini dû na wiini projet na yikini ɓa «The Restitution of Knowledge », na a na warni Universite Technische na 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.