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Enoh Meyomesse (* 1954 in Ebolowa , Cameroon ) is a Cameroonian author , historian , blogger and political activist.

Life

Meyomesse, who comes from southern Cameroon, joined the Union Nationale des Étudiens du Cameroon while studying . At the end of the 1970s he continued his political science studies in Strasbourg and Paris .

Back in his home country, Meyomesse was widely persecuted for criticizing the politics of the rulers in Cameroon. He was accused of participating in the attempted coup in July 2010 but was not arrested due to lack of evidence. In February 2011, the Cameroonian police prevented him from leaving the country. He was invited to an international conference in Bamako , the capital of Mali , and wanted to reach Bamako by plane via Abidjan on the Côte d'Ivoire . After he had to get off the plane again in Yaoundé , he left the country across the Green Border . When he returned, the police could not obstruct him.

Meyomesse wanted to apply for the presidential election in 2011. However, his application documents were not accepted by the rulers in the Région du Sud . However, the alliance he entered into with another candidate was unsuccessful.

Meyomesse was arrested by the Gendarmerie Nationale Camerounaise on November 22, 2011 on his return from Singapore at Yaoundé airport and after a brutal interrogation at the Gendarmerie headquarters in Yaounde, he was taken to Bertoua in the east of the country. He was supposed to reveal the hiding place of the weapons with which he wanted to assassinate the President of Cameroon. He was detained in solitary confinement in complete darkness until December 22, 2011, after which he was transferred to Kondengui Central Prison in Yaoundé. It was not until a year later in December 2012 that the military judiciary sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment and a fine of 200,000 francs CFA for robbery conspiracy with no evidence or witnesses .

liberation

In 2013, Meyomesse in The Hague received the Oxfam Association's Freedom of Expression Prize for his collection of poems Poème carceral, poésie du pénitencier de Kondengui , which was published in German in Vienna that same year . During the years of his imprisonment, he received support from many writers, including Alain Mabanckou , who took his case to the UN Commission on Human Rights . Further supporters were the Tribunal Article 53 and the German PEN Center . In April 2015, the verdict against him was overturned. He was released as innocent on April 27, 2015.

Meyomesse has been living in Darmstadt since October 2015, receiving an Elsbeth Wolffheim grant in 2016 . In the meantime, two more books by the author have been published in German.

Publications

  • Le massacre de Messa , 1955.
  • Complainte noire , 1981.
  • Poème carceral, poésie du pénitencier de Kondengui , 2013.
    • German by Jürgen Strasser: Poems by the prisoner in Kondengui . edition pen at Löcker, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85409-692-4 .
  • Quand a Darmstadt je serais ...
    • German by Jürgen Strasser: Darmstadt: An African declaration of love . Metropol, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86331-259-6 .
  • Fleurs de liberté .
    • German by Jürgen Strasser: Flowers of freedom , anthology. edition pen at Löcker, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85409-786-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Declaration of love to Luisenplatz in FAZ of February 4, 2016, page 42
personal data
SURNAME Meyomesse, Enoh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyomesse, Dieudonne Enoh; Baptismal name
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian author, historian, blogger and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebolowa , Cameroon