 In August 1900 , the commander of German forces at Victoria ( present @-@ day Limbe ) appointed Atangana interpreter for 500 Bulu hostages , who were being pressed into labour . Atangana kept the post for six months and took up extra duties as a nurse . The colonisers next sent Atangana to Buea to work as an office clerk . At some point between the end of his schooling in Kribi and the end of his service in Victoria , Atangana met Marie Biloa , a woman from a village called Mekumba . Although she was a little older and living as a kept woman by a German functionary , Atangana married her . She would eventually bear him two children : Jean Ndengue and Katerina ( or Catherine ) Edzimbi . 
