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Ruben Um Nyobe, trade unionist and Cameroonian nationalist activist (3&4)
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People prepare to enter a church to attend mass, in Yaoundé, Cameroon, September 1948. © AFP
By: Alain Foka Follow
With the end of the Second World War, a new era also began for Africa.
If in Paris, we are delighted with the freedom found, this victory symbolizes on the black continent a new beginning with the colonizer.
And Cameroonians will very quickly burst into the political game by getting involved in the management of the city.
Unions emerge and are organized around emerging figures such as the Bassa clerk Ruben Um Nyobe and the Bulu nurse Charles Assalé.
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