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Cameroon: Documentary on the Bakweri-German Wars

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Cameroon, Film, History

A new documentary [1] on the history of the Bakweri people of Cameroon has been released: “…“Kuva Likenye” is a 30 minute documentary that profiles the heroic exploits of a mountain King called Kuva Likenye who mobilised an ill-trained ragtag army to stand up in arms against German exploitation of the Bakweri people culminating in the Bakweri-German wars of 1891 and 1894.”