Beschreibung
This book publishes for the first time in English the full and expanded
text of a 1905 defense speech that resulted in the remarkable acquittal of
a German colonial subject, “Crown Prince” Mpundu Akwa, in a metropolitan
court. Dr. Moses Levi used his speech to defend brilliantly the young
Cameroonian against charges of fraud and in the process to critique the
entire German colonial system. At a time when Germany’s colonial project
was being called into question, the trial and the defense speech were
politically explosive.
Moses Levi’s defense speech is a courageous and fascinating
document humain – one that offers broad insight into the world
of colonialism, race and power at the turn of the century.
