A brand new platform has been created for those who think they have the comic gene in them.“Take your mic” is expected to be a breeding ground and launchpad for Cameroon’s future funny men and women. If you’re in Yaounde and believe you have the jokes to laugh your way into people’s hearts the place to go every Wednesday as from 5 p.m is the 1111 Club in the Nguosso area, opposite Petrolex. Stop wasting your jokes on cliques,go for a real audience.
Cameroon has always been renown for producing prolific comedians like Jean Miche Kankan, Tchop Tchop , Man no lap, Fingon Tralala, Tagne, Oga, Eza Boto etc . Zachary and Spaco are equally Cameroonian comedians based in Kumba who are making frantic efforts to add value to the comedy industry. Their comedy has enabled them establish themselves as one of Cameroon’s finest entertainers having several CD releases to their credit. The duo just dropped a single titled ”Helele” and a comedy episode titled ”Primary school days” . Makossa artist, Frank Bebe features as School teacher in ”Primary school days”. NexDim shall bring to you an exclusive interview with Zachary and Spaco in the days ahead.
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Below, is the trailer of their brand new CD titled ”IDIOT”.
Just like the Nigerian ‘Nite of a Thousand Laugh’, some inspirational Cameroonians in the person of AnnWilson who acts like the General Organizer and DJ Toxic all Kumba based radio animators have decided to come up with an interesting comedy show – ‘Cameroon’s laughing day’. It is aimed at making people feel relieved after stress from work, homes and personal problems, a forum where people can actually laugh out their lungs and sleep off stress and also where talents can be exploited promoting without necessarily copying from Nigeria and other neighbours.
The very first edition of this program under the sponsorship of Orange Cameroon took place at the Banquet Hall Kumba town with a massive turnout amongst whom were prominent Kumba based artists like Frank Bebe, West Don, and comedians like Zachary, Spaco, Wally and others. Speaking to the G.O., Ann Wilson on the night of the event, NexDim was informed that next editions will be held in Buea, Limbe,Tiko, targeting all the anglophone zones before moving to Douala and co.
Golden Sounds or ZANGALEWA is a Cameroonian Makossa group. It was led by a career member of Cameroon’s presidential guard, Jean Paul Zé Bella. The men in the group provided comical musical entertainment, often dressing in military uniforms, wearing pith helmets and stuffing their clothes with pillows to appear like they had swollen bottoms from riding the train and fat stomachs from eating too much. The band is most famous for its song, Zangalewa which was a huge hit in Africa since its release in 1986. The song was also popular in Colombia where it was known as “The Military” and brought to the country by West African DJs. The song made their band so popular that they later changed the name of their group to Zangalewa, which means “Where are you from?”.
Shakira‘s collaboration with FreshlyGround for the 2010 World Cup, produced the song “Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)” . She shamelessly declared in a press conference that the song was composed by her.
Jean Paul ze Bella has since retired from the presidential guard in 2002 after 30 years of service but his song stands as an icon of Cameroonian military history.
The song is still used today almost everywhere in Africa by soldiers, policemen, boy scouts, sportsmen, and their supporters, usually during training or for rallying. It is also widely used in schools throughout the continent especially in Cameroon as a marching song and almost everyone in the country knows the chorus of the song by heart.
The song, music historians say, is a criticism of black military officers who were in league with whites to oppress their own people.The rest is Cameroonian slang and jargon from the soldiers during the war
According to Jean Paul Zé Bella, the lead singer of Golden Sounds, the chorus came from Cameroonian “sharpshooters who had created a slang for better communication between them during the Second World War”. They copied this fast pace in the first arrangements of the song. They sang the song together for freedom in Africa.
The lyrics, which are in a Central African language called Fang, read like this:
Tsa mina mina eh eh
Waka waka eh eh
Tsa mina mina zangalewa
Ana wam ah ah
Zambo eh eh
Zambo eh eh
Tsa mina mina zangalewa
Wana wa ah ah
Many other artists around the world have previously sampled this song as well. Some of the artists who have sampled the song are:
A brand new platform has been created for those who think they have the comic gene in them.“Take your mic” is expected to be a breeding ground and launchpad for Cameroon’s future funny men and women. If you’re in Yaounde and believe you have the jokes to laugh your way into people’s hearts the place to go every Wednesday as from 5 p.m is the 1111 Club in the Nguosso area, opposite Petrolex. Stop wasting your jokes on cliques,go for a real audience.
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