Initiated to the culture of the Bassa by his father who was well-versed, Um noticed early all the crimes committed by the colonial administration on the indigenous people, crimes such as indentured servitude, forced labor, dehumanization, spanking, beating etc…This made him later write: “la colonisation, c’est l’esclavage ; c’est l’asservissement des peuples par un groupe d’individus dont le rôle consiste à exploiter les richesses et les hommes des peuples asservis“( “Colonization is slavery; it is an enslavement of the populations by a group of individuals whose role is to exploit the riches and the men of the enslaved populations.”)On April 10th, 1948, the Union des Populations du Cameroon (Cameroon People’s Union or UPC) was founded and was first led by Leornard Bouli, and later Um Nyobé was elected general secretary. Um Nyobè was butchered in 1958 by the French government and buried in concrete to remove any remnant of his legacy in the memory of Cameroonians. The story of this hero who is a taboo and is also the hidden story of the longest war for the independence of a former French colony, the determination of a people to end colonial barbarism.September 13, 1958. There are only some pictures of him, an audio recording and his writings. When the wind of democratization was blowing in Africa in the early 90s, the UPC was permitted again; the fathers of independence were acknowledged as national heroes.But that decision was not followed by any concrete effect. Found in the forest near the locality of Boumnyebel, Um Nyobe receives a burst of bullets in the back, shot by a Chadian officer enlisted in the French army.

Um Nyobe : Other Names: Ruben: Date of Birth: 1913-00-00: Place of Birth: Song Mpeck : Ruben Um Nyobé was a Cameroonian freedom fighter, and an anti-imperialist leader. The Mpodol is still absent from the official history.

Um Nyobe was simply erased from history. He thus salutes the "heroic struggles" led by the Vietnamese of Việt Minh and the Algerians of the FLN.On June 13, 1955, the UPC was banned by the French government and its militants went into hiding. In 1952, he stated that "the armed struggle was carried out once and for all by the Cameroonians who contributed greatly to the defeat of German fascism. His mother-in-law and another person in the village are slaughtered. The rest has been classified as top secret by France. Felix Moumie, the UPC’s president, in Switzerland to look for weapons in order to continue the fight, was killed by thallium poisoning by the French in 1960 and with the consent of De Gaulle. Born in Song Mpeck in 1913, Um Nyobé was a stellar student raised in a modest family of farmers. BlackPast.org is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone!

View the profiles of people named Um Nyobe. He particularly insisted on "efforts to raise the ideological level of militants and leaders", and party schools are created. According to the French president Charles de Gaulle’s plan, it is under submitted currency, natural resources, defense, education and culture that Cameroon, like all former French colonies became independent.The north of the English-speaking part joined Nigeria; the South was reunited with the Francophone side of Cameroon. Its symbols were a red flag with a black crab on it: red for the blood of patriots who lost their lives, the crab as a reference to the reunification of Kamerun, and black to symbolize the color of the Black continent, Africa, the cradle of humanity.The party was at first the Cameroonian branch of the RDA, of which Um Nyobé became one of its vice presidents in 1949. Only a statue of modest quality is a sign of tribute to him in his discreet hometown.Today in Cameroon, young people do not know who he is. Join Facebook to connect with Um Nyobe and others you may know.

The father instructed me to heal people. No Memorial Day, no city, no public place,  almost nothing bears his name. Opposed to armed struggle and violence, he encourages his supporters to conduct only peaceful actions such as boycotts, strikes and demonstrations.

That is how he was found and killed in 1958.France chose Ahmadou Ahidjo, a man who agreed to protect the “metropolis’s” interests; he officially became the first president of Cameroon on January 1, 1960. The party then created a women's branch in 1952, the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, in particular to combat discrimination specific to women, and then a youth organisation in 1954, the Jeunesse démocratique du Cameroun.

Today September 13, 2019 makes 61 years after Ruben Um Nyobe, a key figure in the fight for the independence of Cameroon was assassinated. Found in the forest near Boumnyebel, Um Nyobe receives a barrage of bullets in the rear, fired by a Chadian officer drafted into the French army. Ernest Ouandié, the last great leader of the UPC and its armed wing ANLK, was shot dead in 1971.

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