Heinrich Sam Dibonge (1889-1971): Rayuwa tsakanin Kamaru da Jamus – Deutschland | Kamerun
Labaran rayuwa
Robbie Aitken, 2024
Labarin rayuwar dan kasar Kamaru Heinrich Sam Dibonge ya nuna irin tasirin da mulkin mallaka da sakamakonsa ke ci gaba da yi a rayuwar Bakar fata maza da mata da suka shiga tsakanin Afirka ta mulkin mallaka da Jamus. An haife shi a cikin babban iyali a Douala, Kamaru a lokacin mulkin mallaka na Jamus. Dibonge, kamar da yawa daga cikin tsararrakinsa ’yan mulkin mallaka ne suka koyar da su kafin ya shiga hidimar wani ɗan kasuwan Jamus. Wannan ya kawo shi Jamus a lokuta da dama, ciki har da watannin da suka gabata kafin barkewar yakin duniya na farko. A karshen yakin Dibonge ya makale sosai a Hamburg - bai sake komawa Douala ba kuma bai sake ganin matarsa 'yar Kamaru da danginsa ba.
Batun mulkin mallaka na Jamus, ba ɗan ƙasa ba kafin 1914, a bayan yaƙin Jamus, wacce ba ta mallaki daular ketare ba, Dibonge yanzu ya kasance marar ƙasa. A cikin mawuyacin yanayi ya yi yaƙi don ƙirƙirar rayuwa a Jamus. A sakamakon yakin ya sami nasara a matsayin ƙwararren ma'aikaci tare da Theodor Zeise, ya sake yin aure, kuma yana da alaƙa da sauran al'ummar Baƙar fata a Jamus. A lokaci guda kuma, ya yi zaman kurkuku kuma an cire shi daga zama ɗan ƙasar Jamus. Bayan kwace mulki na Nazi halin da Dibonge ke ciki da na matarsa Bajamushe ya tabarbare cikin sauri kuma ma'auratan sun fuskanci wariya da tashin hankali.
Contact: r.aitken@shu.ac.uk
Acknowledgements: I am extremely grateful to B.E. for all the information she shared with me about her mother, H.B. daughter of Heinrich Sam Dibonge. In keeping with the wishes of the family, full names have not been given.
References:
Staatsarchiv Hamburg, 131-4_1930 S I/96; 213-1_1225; 351-11_11715; 351-11_20514
Robert S. Abbott: ‘My Trip Abroad.VII: Sojourning in Germany', Chicago Defender 21 December 1929, p. 10.
Written correspondence with B.E., granddaughter of Heinrich Dibonge, 2017-2020
Robbie Aitken und Eve Rosenhaft: Black Germany - The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960, Cambridge 2013.
Heiko Möhle (ed.): Branntwein, Bibeln und Bananen der deutsche Kolonialismus in Afrika: eine Spurensuche, Hamburg 1999.
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This article was written as part of the project ‘Digital mapping of Hamburg's colonial history’. The project is a co-operation between the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation, the working group HAMBURG POSTKOLONIAL and the Berlin joint project ‘Decolonial Culture of Remembrance in the City’. It is funded by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media and the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Coordination and editing: Anke Schwarzer, 2024
Stationen
Ya girma a cikin kasar Jamus ta Kamaru
Rayuwar bawa mai mulkin mallaka - tafiya ta farko zuwa Jamus
Rayuwa tsakanin Kamaru da Jamus
An makale a bayan yakin Hamburg
Gina rayuwa a Altona
Yar Dibonge
Dan kasa da Rashin Jiha
Rayuwa a Nazi Jamus
An kashe shi a Königslutter: Wally Dibonge [1898-1941]
Sabuwar farawa?
Bayan haka: Sake gina rayuwa a Jamus ta Yamma bayan Yamma
Epilogue: Dibonge's Children