The Cameroonian who keeps beheading statue of French war hero

July 5, 2020 By La rédaction de Mediapart

Activist André Blaise Essama, 44, has served time in prison and been fined for his longstanding campaign against colonial statues, notably that in the Cameroonian city of Douala of French wartime hero general Philippe Leclerc, which he says he has decapitated seven times and toppled on 20 occasions, calling for statues to be erected to the country's own national heoes.

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Cameroonian activist André Blaise Essama has been on a decades-long mission to purge his country of colonial-era symbols, long before the issue came to international prominence in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, reports BBC News.

The Cameroonian who keeps beheading statue of French war hero

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