Resistance and execution of Rudolf Duala Manga Bell
King of the Duala and grandson of the signatory of the 1884 treaty, Rudolf Duala Manga Bell opposed the German plan to expropriate Duala land to create a district reserved for Europeans in Douala. Tried for high treason, he was hanged in Douala on 8 August 1914. The same day, at Ebolowa, Martin-Paul Samba was shot by firing squad after separate proceedings: two distinct resistances, put down on the same day as the war opened.
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Historians such as Mark Dike DeLancey and Helmuth Stoecker see his stand as one of the earliest examples of Cameroonian nationalism.
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