Alexandre Kum'a Ndumbe III.

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Alexandre Kum'a Ndumbe III. (Born November 1, 1946 in Douala ) is a historian , university professor and Germanist from Cameroon.

Life

Alexandre Kum'a Ndumbe III. is a Cameroonian historian who comes from the royal family of the Bele Bele / Bell in the Cameroonian port city of Duala and bears the title of Prince. He spent part of his school days at the Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium in Munich before going to study at the University of Lyon . There he received his doctorate in both history and German . In 1989 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin . In recent decades, he taught and teaches at the University of Berlin, the University of Lyon II , the Catholic University of Lyon and the Université de Yaoundé I .

Tangués in the Museum of Five Continents

Kum'a Ndumbe asks the Five Continents Museum in Munich to return a tangué that Max Buchner stole in Douala in December 1884 . It is an artfully decorated ship's beak that served as the insignum of the local king Kum'a Mbape, Ndumbe's grandfather.

Publications

In 2012 there were more than 30 printed works by Alexandre Kum'a Ndumbe III. some of which were published in Germany. He writes mainly in German and French, but also in English and Duala .

  • Les plans secrètes pour une Afrique fasciste 1933-1945. In: Hitler voulait l'Afrique . Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-85802-140-6 . (Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Lyon)
    • What did Hitler want in Africa? Nazi planning for a fascist reorganization of Africa. from the French by Sven D Körper and Petra Liesenborgs. IKO-Verlag for Intercultural Communication, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-88939-104-4 .
  • Le soleil de l'aurore . PJ Oswald, Paris 1976.
  • Ah, Cameroon! Our old German colony. A documentary piece . Self-published, Lyon 1970.
  • Kafra-Biatanga - Tragedy of Africa . A play in eleven scenes. Exchange & Dialogue, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-939313-02-1 .
  • National Socialism and Apartheid . Racial ideology and monetary affairs in North-South relations 1933-1973 . AfriqueAvenir, Douala / Exchange & Dialogue, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-939313-10-6 .
  • The German Empire in Cameroon: How Germany was able to build up its colonial power in Cameroon . AfriqueAvenir, Douala / Exchange & Dialogue, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939313-09-0 .
  • Stratégies de survie des populations africaines dans une économie mondialisée: L'expérience Camerounaise . AfriqueAvenir, Douala / Exchange & Dialogue, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939313-11-3 .
  • L'Afrique s'annonce au rendez-vous, la tête haute! Discours sur la transmision du savoir, la libération totale et le développement durable des Africains, de la diaspora noire et de leur continent . AfricAvenir, Douala / Exchange & Dialogue, Berlin 2007, Third, improved and expanded edition 2012: ISBN 978-3-939313-16-8 .
  • I knocked on your door ... witnesses of the times in letters, poems and stories . AfricAvenir, Douala / Exchnage & Dialogue, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939313-04-5 .
  • 50 ans déjà! Quand cessera enfin votre indépendance-là ??? . Exchange & Dialogue, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-939313-96-0 .
  • as publisher: Vous avez dit démocratie? Le processus de democratisation en Cameroun. Défis et perspectives. AfricAvenir, Douala 2011, ISBN 978-3-939313-16-8 .
Play
  • Lumumba II , WP: London, 1968, DEA: Munich 1971

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Pfaff: Under a false flag. An African treasure has been hanging in the Munich Völkerkundemuseum since 1885 , Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 20, 2013, p. 11
  2. ↑ Joachim Zeller: The royal insignia of Kum'a Mbape from Cameroon - The dispute over colonial looted property in the Munich Völkerkundemuseum, in: Ulrich van der Heyden and Joachim Zeller (eds.): Colonialism here - A search for traces in Germany. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-269-8 , pp. 328–329.
personal data
SURNAME Kum'a Ndumbe III., Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian historian, university professor and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Douala