Ruben Um Nyobè - pioneer of Cameroon's independence assassinated by the French army To find the grave of Ruben Um Nyobè, Cameroonian independence leader assassinated by the French army two years before independence in 1960, you have to find your way through the dense grass of the Protestant cemetery of Eseka, near his hometown. In this part of central Cameroon, activists with the 'Union des populations du Cameroun' (UPC) are trying to keep the memory of this charismatic leader alive. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES