Talk:Charles Atangana

message: A nice and informative article! But I wonder, if he spent so much time with the Germans in his youth, did he still speak his native language in his later life? If he still did, he must have had quite some contact with his own people through the years, something the article isn't clear about. — mark ✎ 07:54, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My sources didn't give any specific information about much time he spent with other Ewondo, but I would infer that he interacted more with his own people during the French administration than the German one. And his wife and children would have spoken Ewondo, as would the chiefs whom he mobilized, so I doubt he ever forgot the language. I plan to add something to DYK later today! BrianSmithson 11:46, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

text: I believe that dictionary was used as a source. The work gang thing should be mentioned, for example, unless the article's been vandalized since then. — Brian (talk) 23:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: This is a better photo of him, but I can't establish when it was taken. He lived into the 1940s, so it's uncertain whether this photo is PD yet or not. There's also a nice statue of him in downtown Yaoundé, if anyone with a camera is headed that way. — BrianSmithson 19:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Cameroon-plus.com uses the image to illustrate its section on the history of German Colonial Cameroon, which dates it back far enough for it to be public domain. — BrianSmithson 18:55, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: vandalism is rampant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.162.43.63 (talk • contribs) 
:That should be the wiki's new motto.  - BanyanTree 20:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: I've just expanded the article with information from some additional sources I was able to find. The following sources also deal with Atangana, but I don't have access to them here in Japan. Any help tracking these down would be most appreciated! — Brian (talk) 01:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Brian. Have you tried using http://www.abebooks.com/? I personally found it of immense help for obtaining Chad-related books, that I would have had without great difficulties to find. Giving a fast look, Bayart's book can be bought for 23 dollars, Levine's one for 14 dollars, Mveng's Histoire for 23 dollars, Ngongo for 27. The books in question are all used. Hope this can be of some help.--Aldux 14:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the link. I was going to order some of those books, but then as soon as I input that I'm in Japan, the shipping almost doubled the price. Oh well; perhaps I'll order them care of a relative in the States and then pick them up the next time I visit home. Thanks again! — Brian (talk) 05:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: It seems clear from the entry as it exists today (23 May 10 local time) that Charles Atangana decided as a young man that the best way for a black African to survive and prosper in German-occupied Cameroun was to learn German, act as German/European as possible, and make himself useful to the Germans in ways that did not involve personal manual labor. 
When the Germans were replaced by the French and were of no further use to him he evidently decided that the best way for a black African to survive and prosper in French-occupied Camerous was to learn French, act as French as possible and make himself useful to the French in ways that also did not involve personal manual labor. 
His actions speak for themselves, don't they? 
That said, it is easy for free men and women in the 21st century to condemn the choices made in another time and place by those who were not free and who had little hope of gaining their freedom. (71.22.47.232 (talk) 07:21, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
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