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Eckhard Möller, 2024

Matjamwo Mavanzilla, wanda aka yi wa baftisma Paul Mavanzilla, yana daya daga cikin mutanen da aka sace daga Afirka suna yara a karni na 19. Zamansa na shekaru goma a Jamus ya yi tasiri mai dorewa a gare shi. An haife shi a shekara ta 1875, ko kuma a cewar wasu majiyoyi, a cikin 1873, a gidan sarki Puto Muëne Kassongo kusa da mahadar kogin Ganga da Kwango. A shekara ta 1881, shugaban wani balaguron mulkin mallaka na Jamus, Alexander von Mechow, ya kama yaron, a lokacin yana da shekaru shida ko takwas, ya kai shi Jamus.

Bayan shekaru biyar a Berlin da Leipzig, Mavanzilla ya halarci makarantu a Gütersloh da Lichtenstern (Württemberg). Daga nan ya fara horarwa a matsayin mai wa’azi a makarantun mishan da ke Basel da Barmen (yanzu Wuppertal-Barmen) kafin ƙungiyar mishan ta Rhenish (RMG) ta tura shi Cape Town. A can, ya yi aiki a matsayin malami a makarantar RMG har zuwa shekara ta 1912. Bayan da ya yi fama da bugun jini mai tsanani, ya yi fama da lalurar tabin hankali kuma ya mutu a shekara ta 1912 yana da shekara 40 a duniya.

Ana iya gano rayuwar Mavanzilla daga rahotannin “Kwango Expedition” na Alexander von Mechow zuwa takardu da wasiƙu a cikin gidan mahaifinsa Bajamushe a cikin tarihin Ikklesiya na Furotesta ga al'adun danginsa a Afirka ta Kudu.

Gargadin abun ciki: Paul Mavanzilla ya fuskanci wariyar launin fata da kuma zargin cin zarafin jima'i a lokuta da yawa a rayuwarsa. Ba za a iya ba da labarin tarihin rayuwarsa ba tare da nuna waɗannan abubuwan ba. Muna rokon masu karatu su yanke shawara da kansu ko suna son karanta wannan rubutu mai zuwa.

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Binciken da Turawan mulkin mallaka suka yi a Kogin Kwango

Daga Kogin Kwango zuwa Berlin

Shekaru a Berlin da Leipzig

A cikin Westphalia: Gütersloh da Mennighüffen

Shiri don makarantar mishan a Lichtenstern

Koyarwar mishan a Basel

Koyarwar mishan a Barmen

Shekarun baya a Cape of Good Hope

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