Mandu Yenu – Black King between adaptation and resistance

This film tells the story of the origin of the Bamun king´s throne – now at home in the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin – which was presented one hundred years ago to the German Kaiser as a gift and symbol of power from the Emperor of the Bamun. „Mandu Yedu“ portrays the encounter of a black king with Europeans.

Original titel: Mandu Yenu
A film by Peter Heller
© 1985, Filmkraft Peter Heller

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