Dieudonné Gnammankou’s late-twentieth century discovery. The search for Logone began in the nineteenth century, culminating in historian Dr. This appeal is the only recorded testimony of his African origins. I was born in the city of Logone, on lands belonging to my father, who reigned, furthermore, over two other cities.” “ I am of African origin, of an illustrious local nobility. But, in a 1742 letter to the Russian Senate, Gannibal insisted that his noble status was linked to his father being an African chief. By the time Peter the Great’s daughter Elizabeth took the throne, Gannibal’s rank and accomplishments allowed him noble status. He made him his godson, conferring upon him the patronymic Petrovitch, son of Peter, and sent him to study in France. The Tsar became very fond of the young boy. From there, a Serbian Count named Sava Vladislavić brought him to the Court of Peter the Great in St. Gannibal (sometimes written Hannibal), was very young when he was kidnapped from Africa and sent to Constantinople as a slave. Pushkin’s Cameroonian great-grandfather was simultaneously an insider and an outsider, rather like a poet who looks in on the world to compose about it.
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