Lolo village

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Lolo village
Lolodorf (Cameroon)
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Coordinates 3 ° 14 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 3 ° 14 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E
Basic data
Country Cameroon

region

South
height 450 m
Residents 45,300

Lolodorf is a city in southwest Cameroon ( South Province ) with approx. 45,300 inhabitants. It is located above the Lokundje in the rainforest area. Lolodorf is located between Éséka in the north, 56 km away, Mvengue in the east (33 km) and Bipindi, Georg August Zenker's place of activity in the south-west. It is 110 km from Kribi and 76 km from Ebolowa .

history

View from the Lolodorf station during the German colonial era

Under German colonial rule, Lolodorf was the seat of a military station and the capital of the district of the same name. It was founded on September 1, 1893 to secure the Kribi - Yaounde trade route , initially under civil administration. The supply of provisions took place from Kribi. In 1895 a new house was built. In October of the same year it was occupied by a department of the Schutztruppe , which in the second half of the 1890s extended German judicial and commercial sovereignty to the neighboring Bane and Ngumba companies. In September 1907 the district and the station returned to civil administration. With the death of the last station manager, Wilhelm Achenbach , Lolodorf was dissolved as a government station in May and the district area was divided into the neighboring districts of Kribi, Edea , Jaunde and Ebolowa . At the previous station, a vaccination station staffed by a gardener and a hospital assistant was set up to continue the agricultural experiments and the exercise of vaccination control. When the First World War broke out, the place was also the seat of a police station and a post office. There was also a Presbyterian mission station, the Miss Mac Lean Memorial Station .

Current situation

Lolodorf is home to the Pygmäenstämme the otherwise further south settled Bagyeli and for haplogroup belonging Bakola . The tribes of the Ngumba , Fang and the Bulu, who are related to them, also settle here . From the 1960s onwards, Bagyeli and Bakola became more and more socially dominant, which led to the Cameroonian government disavowing the integration plans of the marginalized groups. With the agreements between Chad and Cameroon in 1999 to massively cut down the rainforest in this region, the situation has worsened. There is also illegal clearing. The Bantu peoples are partly subject to slavery.

Personalities

  • Anne-Marie Nzié (* 1931 or 1932 in Lolodorf-Bibia; † May 24, 2016 in Yaoundé), singer

literature

  • Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914 . Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen 2007 (also dissertation, University of Münster 2008).
  1. Main band. 2007, ISBN 978-3-86727-472-2 .
  2. The imperial protection force and its officer corps . 2007, ISBN 978-3-86727-473-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Fitzner: German Colonial Handbook. Volume 1, 2nd ext. Ed., Hermann Paetel, Berlin 1901, p. 117 (Reprint, Melchior Verlag, Wolfenbüttel).
  2. Christopher Jator: Cameroon: Illegal Logging - Six Logs, 12 Trucks Seized in Douala. In: Cameroon Tribune, August 26, 2013