In 1889, the Leipzig-born gardener and botanist Georg August Zenker became head of the Yaoundé research station in the German colony of Cameroon. After six years in office, Zenker was unexpectedly dismissed from his position. In fact, he is said to have lived in polygamy with several African women at the station and to have had children from these relationships. Zenker then left Cameroon, but soon returned as a private citizen. He settled with his family (a woman from Dahomé and five children) in Bipindi, deep in the Cameroonian jungle, where he had the Bipindihof built - a house in the German colonial style and large plantations for growing cocoa, rubber and bananas. Zenker earned the majority of his income as a collector of numerous plant and animal specimens as well as ethnological objects for German museums. On the one hand, Zenker's actions and thoughts were strongly characterised by colonial thinking. However, he also repeatedly showed moments in which he opposed the colonial and militaristic practices of his superiors and compatriots. He died in 1922 and is buried at the Bipindihof. Today, Zenker's descendants live far and wide in Cameroon and Europe, but many of them still refer to the now dilapidated Bipindihof as their family's place of origin. For their project, photographers Yana Wernicke and Jonas Feige travelled several times to what is now the Republic of Cameroon to follow in Zenker's footsteps and take portraits of his descendants.