Yaoundé texts by Karl Atangana and Paul Messi
Yaoundé texts by Karl Atangana and Paul Messi, along with experimental phonetic studies on the pitches in Yaoundé and an introduction to the Yaoundé language is a book written by Karl Atangana and Paul Messi and published in 1919 by the linguist Martin Heppe.
Atangana compiled the book while he was living in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg from 1911 to 1913. It consists of his letters and folklore as well as the oral traditions that he received as a young Ewondo boy in West Africa before the establishment of the German Cameroon colony learned. It was published in Hamburg in 1919. Today the Yaoundé texts form an important source on the history of the Ewondo and related peoples such as the Beti-Prahuin .
The Yaoundé texts also offer insights into the beliefs and character of Atangana. He wrote about his rulers "To dare to approach the Germans it is necessary to abandon the traits which displease them, to become their friend and then be valued by them."
literature
- Yaoundé texts by Karl Atangana and Paul Messi. (Online at openlibrary.org)
- Frederick Quinn: Charles Atangana of Yaounde . The Journal of African History , Vol. 21, No. 4, pages 485-95. Cambridge University Press, 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quinn, p. 488