Cameroon: The story of Lock Priso Bell told in “Our Wishes”

2023-08-26 08:04:09

In 1884, Lock Priso Bell, king of Hickory Town, the current Bonabéri in the district of Douala Ve, opposed the signing of the German-Douala treaty. The treaty will finally be signed on July 12 of the same year by the other Douala kings. It will subsequently prohibit the installation of the German flag on its territory, which will trigger clashes with the German colonial army. Events that make him the first Cameroonian anti-colonial resistance fighter according to several historians. The story of Lock Priso Bell forms the plot of the Our Wishes series by Cameroonian director Jean-Pierre Bekolo.
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