 Ewondo who learned German were highly favoured in the early days of the colonial regime . Station commander Hans Dominik sent four such individuals to attend the mission school of the German Pallottine Fathers in Kribi , a settlement on the coast . There , Atangana learned German language , history , and geography ; mathematics ; and Roman Catholicism . Father Heinrich Vieter especially liked the boy , and Atangana became the first Ewondo baptised a Roman Catholic ; he took the Christian name Karl . Atangana 's schooling had just ended when members of the Bulu ethnic group , one closely related to the Ewondo , invaded Kribi and sacked the school and church in 1899 . Atangana waited out the revolt in Douala with the Fathers until the colonial militia defeated the rebels the following year . 
