Dr. Fritz Liebl, a young physician from Straubing, Bavaria, who worked in a tropical clinic in Aného in the so-called German protectorate, regulated in this official declaration of October 12, 1909 the alimony payments to Kokoé Edith Ajavon and their son Johann, who was to be born in January 1910.
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Lome, October 12, 1909<br> Present<br> Assessor Dr. Asmus as district officer<br> The government physician Dr. Liebl appeared recently in Anecho (?) and stated: I lived with the native Kokoe Aite Ayaron from Anecho (?) during my stay in the protectorate. Kokoe is now expecting a child, who is expected to be born around January 1910. Today I deposited the amount of 700 M. in the name of Kokoe with the D.W.B. (?), to which must be added another 300 M., which building master Metzger owes me and which he will deposit for Kokoe with the D.W.B. This total amount of 1000 M. is primarily intended for the expected child. I request that the amount …
… be placed in guardianship and that it first be paid to Kokoe in the amount of 20 M. per month until the birth of the child. If the child becomes a mulatto child, the amount of 50 M. shall be paid to the Kokoe on the occasion of the birth. For the following 2 years, I ask to pay 10 M. per month to Kokoe for the support of the child. After the expiration of these 2 years, the payments to the mother shall cease and the remaining amount shall be used by the guardianship authority in the interest of the child. Should the child become a black child, I ask that 200 M. be paid to the mother and the rest returned to me. Kokoe will stay in Lome …
… at the home of her brother, the healer Emanuel Ajaron, until the birth. If she returns to Anecho at a later date, I ask that the remaining amount and the files be transferred there. I will instruct Kokoe to go to the District Office to collect the .... due. The D.W.B. will deliver the deposit book to the district office.<br> Dr. Liebl<br> sealed Dr. Asmus (?)
During the German colonial period in Togo, there was intellectual resistance. In the neighboring British colony of Gold Coast, the weekly magazine Gold Coast Leader appeared, in which anonymous Togolese authors denounced German colonial policy.
The author of this text in the “Gold Coast Leader” of July 6, 1912, indicts in very clear terms the lack of morals of the German officers.
Article from the “Gold Coast Leader” of January 24, 1914 addressing the “mixed marriage question”. The author is given only as “by a native of Aneho”.
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