Heinrich Sam Dibonge [1889-1971]: Igbesi aye laarin Cameroon ati Germany – Deuschland | Kamerun
Awọn itan igbesi aye
Robbie Aitken, ọdun 2024
Itan igbesi aye ti Ilu Kamẹrika Heinrich Sam Dibonge ṣe afihan ipa ti o tẹsiwaju ti ijọba amunisin ati awọn abajade rẹ ni awọn igbesi aye awọn ọkunrin ati obinrin dudu ti o lọ laarin Afirika amunisin ati Germany. Ti a bi si idile olokiki ni Douala, Ilu Kamẹra ni akoko ijọba ijọba Jamani. Dibonge, bii ọpọlọpọ awọn iran rẹ ti kọ ẹkọ nipasẹ awọn alaṣẹ ṣaaju ki o to wọle si iṣẹ ti oniṣowo German kan. Eyi mu u wá si Germany ni ọpọlọpọ awọn igba, pẹlu ninu awọn osu lẹsẹkẹsẹ ṣaaju ki ibesile Ogun Agbaye akọkọ. Ni opin ogun Dibonge ti wa ni idamu ni imunadoko ni Hamburg - ko pada si Douala ati pe ko ri iyawo rẹ ara ilu Kameroon ati idile ọdọ rẹ mọ.
Koko amunisin Jamani kan, kii ṣe ọmọ ilu ṣaaju ọdun 1914, ni Germany lẹhin ogun, eyiti ko ni ijọba okeokun mọ, Dibonge ti di alaini orilẹ-ede ni imunadoko ni bayi. Ni awọn ipo iṣoro ti o pọ si o ja lati ṣẹda igbesi aye ni Germany. Ni igbeyin ogun o ri aṣeyọri bi oṣiṣẹ ti oye pẹlu Theodor Zeise, ti o tun ṣe igbeyawo, o si ni asopọ si agbegbe Black Black ni Germany. Lẹ́sẹ̀ kan náà, ó ṣiṣẹ́ ẹ̀wọ̀n ẹ̀wọ̀n, wọ́n sì yọ ọ́ lẹ́nu mọ́ láti jẹ́ ọmọ orílẹ̀-èdè Jámánì. Lẹhin ijagba agbara Nazi ipo Dibonge ati ti iyawo rẹ ara Jamani ti bajẹ ni iyara ati pe tọkọtaya naa ni idalaba ati iwa-ipa.
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
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