Cameroon will be marking the 100th anniversary of the resistance against the German oppression from August 4 to 10, 2014 in Douala, according to an APA report on Tuesday.
The city of Douala, which is the epicenter of events, will for a week vibrate to the rhythm of conferences, exhibitions, professional visits and other cultural and sporting activities to remember the period where some figures of resistance were hanged and executed by the Germans.
Among others, Prince Roudophe Douala Manga Bell, who was hanged on August 08, 1914 for constantly opposing the expropriation of local populations, resistant Ngosso Din and Martin Paul Samba, first Cameroonian officer trained in Germany, were all publicly hanged for their resistance.
According to Ms. Marilyn Douala Bell, a member of the Organizing Committee, "it is important for the new generation to fit in the history of their country in order to have tools to transmit their knowledge to future generations."
As a German protectorate on July 12, 1884, Cameroon was placed under the mandate of the League of nations after the first World War (1914-1918), then under the auspices of the United Nations Organization (UN) after the second World War (1939-1945).
The United Nations subsequently entrusted the administration of the western part of the country to Germany, and the southern part to France before independence came on January 1, 1960; then the reunification of the North and South on 1 October 1961.
