Mandu Yenu / Afrikas Zeugen - Wohin mit der Erinnerung

Mandu Yenu. Des Kaisers schwarzer Thron | BRD 1984 | Dir+Scr: Peter Heller | Cam: David Slama | 62 min | OF | The story of an African royal throne, which today is marvelled at in Berlin's Humboldt Forum: the German emperor received this symbol of the power of the king of the Bamoun as a "gift" for his birthday in 1908 from the colony of Cameroon. The film depicts the encounter of a Black king with the Europeans, it gives a picture of the high culture of the pre-colonial period in West Africa and of the arrogance of German master men who had come as conquerors.