Fo’o Sokoudjou « le colon français m’avait destitué »

Jean Rameau Sokoudjou: "The French colonizers had deposed me" The story of the Bamendjou leader, Jean Rameau Sokoudjou, is that of a resistance fighter at heart. Having ascended to the throne in 1953, his long reign was anything but smooth sailing. Under the French colonial administration, he was imprisoned, tortured, his chiefdom burned, and to top it all off, his women raped before his eyes. The French colonizers' attempt to depose this charismatic leader failed in the face of fierce resistance from the local population. When he was released from prison in the early 1960s, thanks to an amnesty, he reclaimed his throne to continue his struggle, which continues to this day.