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Momulu Massaquoi (geboren am 6. Dezember 1869 – gestorben am 15. Juni 1938) war ein König der Vai in Liberia und Sierra Leone und 1922 bis 1930 der liberianische Generalkonsul in Deutschland.[1][2]
Early life
Massaquois Eltern waren der Vai-König Lahai und Königin Fatama Bendu Sandemani aus N'Jabacca.[3] Er besuchte eine Missionsschule in Cape Mount, bevor er in die Vereinigten Staaten reiste, um das Central Tennessee College in Nashville zu besuchen. [4]
Massaquoi was required by his mother to begin to study at an early age. His parents were both Muslims, and in the hopes that their son might learn to read the Koran, they placed him as a student of a Muslim cleric when he was eight years old. Two years later, he came under Christian influence at a mission school of the Protestant Episcopal Church, where he was sent to learn the English language. After several years’ residence at the mission, he was baptized and confirmed. In 1888 he began attending Central Tennessee College in Nashville, Tennessee. His mother died while he was in college, and her death made him the rightful ruler of N’Jabacca. He felt it to be his duty to return to his people, but again visited the United States to represent Africa at the Parliament of Religious ((Erstes Parlament der Weltreligionen)) and the African Ethnological Congress in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition. He opened, in May, 1900, an industrial school at Ghendimah, the capital of Gallinas. Here, the pupils were instructed in English, Vei, and Arabic, and in the industrial arts. He was endeavoring, in his own words, “to develop an African civilization independent of any, yet, like others, on a solid Christian principle.”Vorlage:Sfn
Notable descendants
- Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi, Liberian politician
- Sein Enkel war der Jornalist und Schriftsteller Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi
- Seine Tochter war die Wissenschaftlerin Fatima Massaquoi. Während ihres Aufenthalts in Hamburg war sie liiert mit Richard Heydorn. ref Groschek, Iris und Hering, Rainer: Fatima und Richard Ein Paar zwischen Deutschland und Afrika (1929–1943) ulrike helmer verlag hamburg 2018 ISBN 978-3-89741-406-8
References
Bibliography
- Missionary Review Publishing Company: The Missionary Review of the World. Missionary Review Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1905.
Further reading
- Raymond J. Smyke: The first African diplomat: Momolu Massaquoi (1870-1938). Xlibris, 2005.Vorlage:Self-published inline
External links
- Synopsis: The First African Diplomat - summary of Raymond J. Smyke's biographical manuscript covering the life of Momolu Massaquoi
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- ↑ The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, 25 January 2012, ISBN 978-1-137-01761-1, S. 239–.
- ↑ Smyke, Raymond J. The first African diplomat, c2004: t.p. (Momolu Massaquoi) p. 43, etc. (b. 1870?, Kpasalo, Liberia; d. June 15, 1938)
- ↑ Elwood D. Dunn, Amos J. Beyan, Carl Patrick Burrowes: Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press, 20 December 2000, ISBN 978-1-4616-5931-0, S. 223–.
- ↑ Thomas Borstelmann: Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War. Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-19-507942-5, S. 7–.
