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Kamerun Merdeka
Cameroon Independent
Api Kartini (1959) article welcoming Cameroon's coming independence (1 January 1960). Profiles Marthe Ouandie of the Cameroon women's movement and WIDF (based in East Berlin), who knows Indonesian women of GERWANI through WIDF and the peasant-women's federation; expresses Indonesian women's solidarity and support for UN recognition of Cameroon's demands.
Artikel Api Kartini (1959) menyambut kemerdekaan Kamerun (1 Januari 1960). Memperkenalkan Marthe Ouandie dari gerakan wanita Kamerun dan GWDS (berpusat di Berlin Timur), yang mengenal wanita Indonesia dalam GERWANI melalui GWDS dan federasi wanita tani; menyatakan solidaritas wanita Indonesia dan dukungan atas tuntutan Kamerun di PBB.
“As WIDF members, Cameroonian women 'know Indonesian women in GERWANI well', though contact is 'not yet as close as hoped'.”
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- Date
- 1959
- Creator
- Api Kartini
- Publication
- Api Kartini
- Document type
- periodical article (Api Kartini magazine issue/page)
- Language
- Indonesian
- Perspective
- Gerwani/PKI-aligned voice
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1955–1959
- Source archive
- Alexander Street - Women and Social Movements (WASI / Modern Empires WASG) via Columbia proxy · source link
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- library-licensed (Columbia University Libraries); personal research copy Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
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- 01 Primary Sources/1.2 Api Kartini Magazine 1959 to 1964/Api Kartini articles (1959-1964) - single articles (Alexander Street WASI)/Api Kartini (1959) - Kamerun Merdeka Independent Cameroon [WASI].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.935) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.2 Api Kartini Magazine 1959 to 1964 › Api Kartini articles (1959-1964) - single articles (Alexander Street WASI)
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- full text read
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