Ruben Um Nyobe

1913 – 1958 Cameroonian Independence leader

Founder and leader of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC), the radical independence movement. He was hunted down and killed by French colonial forces in 1958.

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1958 Ruben Um Nyobe killed by French colonial forces killed by colonial forces
1960 Felix-Roland Moumie poisoned in Geneva the UPC founder whose death handed the movement to Moumie