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Amindeh Blaise Atabong

MYSTERIOUS: The colonial partition that keeps cameroon split along artificial lines | Mind Blowing Facts

Atemafac Anathasia Tanjuh, whose family says she is about 120 years old, reflects on her time under German colonial rule [Amindeh Blaise Atabong/Al Jazeera]

Tiko, Cameroon – On a warm day in Mudeka, an English-speaking village across the river from Cameroon’s Francophone region, supercentenarian Atemafac Anathasia Tanjuh pieces together snippets of her childhood memories.

Tanjuh, whose family says she is about 120 years old, is one of the last living witnesses to European colonial rule in Africa and her Bangwa people’s fierce resistance against German colonisation.

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