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Nigerian superstar Timaya, and a host of other acts like Anogiri,KC Presh,Eddidy and Iyanya (winner of  MTN Project Fame)  will be taking South West Cameroon by storm with two major shows.These concerts will take place at the Molyko Sports Complex Buea and GTTC Hall Kumba on the 13th and 14th of November 2009 respectively.This event is organized by DKL EVENTS Nigeria that extended its branch to Buea,Cameroon this year.

Award winning artist ,Timaya since the release of his first album has been making great waves in Cameroon.Approximately every home in Anglophone Cameroon has a copy Timaya’s CD.

Timaya was born in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State in the Southern part of Nigeria. He started from Port Harcourt. While in Port Harcourt. As a teenager in Nkpolu Oroworukwo Secondary School where he won so many awards in inter-school competitions and moved to Lagos to stay with his elder sister at his parents request so as to complete his secondary school education. He schooled at Ikeja High School in Mafoluku, Lagos. At one time in Mgbuosimini he was spotted hawking plantain.

Music career

He started out with a couple of early collaborations with some underground artists and was a back-up singer for Eedris Abdulkareem. He featured in an unreleased video by UDX, a rap group based in Lagos. Namse Udosen was one of his early mentors in the music game back in Lagos in the early 2000s. Namse Udosen (AKA Menthol X) laced the rap verse on Pomporo, a hit track on his debut album “True Story”.

His first major hit was the song “Dem Mama” an account of the 1999 destruction of Odi, a riverine community in the oil producing Niger Delta, by soldiers hunting down militants whom where alledged to have killed 8 policemen. The village was burnt down and numerous people killed. Timaya bravely tackled the topic years later and won instant street credibility for his boldness.

Timaya is also called the Egberi Papa 1 (the peoples town crier) of Bayelsa or Mr. Timaya. Timaya is currently the rave of the Nigerian music scene, with a lot of other musicians interested in doing collaborations with him. Timaya is for collabo because he says that collabo is like promo. That is, collaboration promotes a musician. He has collaborated with J Martins and P Square on the J Martins award winning Owey (Which Kin Life), with Kefee on Kokoroko, Spyder Man and others.

This event will be officially sponsored by MTN CAMEROON and MUTZIG

Contact info:Eni Angwi 74857262.99941141

Le très prometteur label de musique Scratch Recordz offre aux admirateurs de la culture hip hop camerounaise, un grand evenement du nom de Dance Academy. Dance Academy est une compétition universitaire nationale de hip hop prévue pour ce novembre. Les groupes de danse viendront d’universités des quatres coins du pays, et se réuniront à Buea pour un show à plusieurs épisodes.Les juges sélectionnés pour l’évenement sont entre autres Sidney, vainqueur de Africa Star 2008 et Miss Cameroon 2009. Le public aussi pourra voter pour son groupe favorit. Des artistes tels que Ak sang grave, Koppo, lady B, Sanzie Vianney et plein d’autres seront aussi de la partie. Une date exacte n’a pas encore revelée mais toute nouvelle information sera très prochainement postée.

Propos receullis de Nellison Tum de Scratch Recordz. 

Visitez scratchrecordz.com pour des info sur le label.

Tekum Valentine a.k.a V-Shai was born in Cameroon on January 16. V-Shai is an Afro Hip Hop artist, businessman and one of the best Swiss professional club DJ’s in the arena of hip hop, soul, Rnb, classics, ragga, raggaeton, and Afro beats.

He is presently the CEO of Bling Bling Hip Hop clothing shops across Swiss. He was the front man of the most successful hip hop group known as “friends united refugees” based in Swiss.
After a successful career as professional DJ world wide playing in cities like New York along side with DJ Knockles and Fatman Scoop and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in club bunker in Copacabana and in all top clubs in Swiss like Indochine, Beach Club, Kaufleuten, the Great Cubanito, zoo club, le Bal club, k5 club, Masscote, and more. He has also traveled worldwide for business to places like Mexico, China, Dubai, USA, Germany, Canada, UK, across Europe and Africa. With his first solo Album due to be out by the end of this year, he has already dropped a single which is currently at the top ofthe charts in Nigeria along side with currnt No1. Artist in Nigeria and winner of Best African Artist 2008, Mobo Awards in Wembley,9ICE.

click on this link to watch V-Shai’s new video Eti ri Gbo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6991IhB_jkQ

V-SHAI featuring 9ice ”Today na today”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ6utsPGvQ8

Reprudencia a.k.a Range Rover is one of the hottest Cameroonian models,and fashion designers. She is now  based in Hollywood,L.A,United States of America. NexDim caught up with the celebrity for an exclusive interview.

NexDim:hey,how are you doing?

Range Rover:Fine.Thank you.

NexDim:Tell us Reprudencia, why are you called Range Rover ?

Range Rover:”I use the name Range Rover simply because  it’s my favorite car”.

NexDim: You hail from Cameroon. Tell us about your family and background.

Range Rover:”Yes, I am Cameroonian and I’m 100% proud.I was born in its Capital, Yaounde. About my family, I really do not mix family in my showbiz  life as they are  two different worlds you know”.

NexDim: what pushed you to leave Cameroon into Hollywood ?

Range Rover: ”I didn’t leave Cameroon to Hollywood.As you know, I have always been looked as Hollywood from Cameroon. But when I moved to the U.S.A, I went to the wrong place, Maryland where I lived for 2 years but I still followed my dreams. It was the wrong place because if I had left earlier, I know I would have been further but its all good God knows why”.

NexDim: How does it feel like attending film school in Hollywood ?

Range Rover:”My acting Career still stands but i switched (our secret ) to fashion design. I love acting and it is in my blood and at the same time I am fashion, I represent fashion like my “Bestie”, Rose will say”her dress code is too flashy for fashion’‘ . So after doing the film thing , you get to realize in NYFA, it’s mostly good for people who want to be film makers. I was taking classes at SMC but i switched to FDIM, a renowned fashion design school in Down town LA popularly known as Fashion District where I did two years and graduated with a clothing line and a degree. Hopefully celebs like me of course (LAUGHING) wearing my line. Hope I will design a shirt you will buy”
NexDim: Tell us about some recent things you have done in the industry.

Range Rover:

Hhmmmm!! my recent works have been Playboy Radio Talk Show which everyone misunderstood of course on Facebook. It is a talk show for girls. Especially those who have  a life related to show biz.I did a spot for BET which airs on and off, I did a show on MTV parental control, I also did Hollywood  Judge and I do a lot of runway shows and different bits n bites. I shot for Sexy Show Magazine (but still thinking if I wanna be in it),and right now we working on a reality tv show coming near you soon. I’m working on that with my friend ,Sofiya (she is an actress and a host..(secret) .

NexDim:I hear you live in a luxurious apartment and you party all the time, sure you must be making alot of money in Hollywood.

Range Rover: Wow! I didn’t know gossip goes that far oh. Well when you are good I guess people notice faster. Yes, I live a luxurious and extravagant life which I am cutting down  due to the recession in America.The family I did not want to talk about supports me a lot. I leave my luxury thanks to them because it ain’t easy going to school,pursuing Hollywood  then working. but I make some Good money from doing hair. That’s  my talent from GOD.
As for partying what else is there to do in Hollywood?parties start at 12 and end at 2 AM. I do not drink and i do not smoke so I have double energy to party every day.

NexDim:There is word in the streets that you dating an NBA player.

Range Rover:”Word!! hhmm!!the streets will kill me as they always have words. Well, I wouldn’t want to suspend this question. But hey I am close to an NBA player actually couple of them but one of them is my close friend,we text, phone, Facebook,Twitter etc every day. We just friends but I know it’s not the story out there even here in LA. It’s in a lot of lips from people we both know but it’s not true. We’re just kool and we’ll stay friends ,he’s a really good friend though, but people just mix things up. Plus, I am so single so I do not even know what they talking about I even saw it on some paparazzi shit and stuff..”
NexDim:Tell us about your affair with a Nigerian RnB artist who took you to lagos ?

Range Rover:Wow!! you’re knocking me down. Wait! are you paparazzi? and you live in Cameroon? where do you get all these stories? Wow! well, Yes I was seen in LAGOS and No No No ,no Rn B artist flew me in. C’mon I am a big girl .I went to 9ja for work, nothing else but I am close to some artist and we hung out while I was there, like we hang out when he comes here . So it’s nothing like I said in the interview with NBA  player. We’re just friends,he’s a total sweetheart, he sings very good and we keeping in industry friendly. I mean he might feature in my upcoming Song. So i need the friendship…dammn!! that was hot. I still feel the heat from those two questions..OOOppps!!!

NexDim:After studying out there do you plan to stay there or come to Africa and establish ?

Range Rover:You so didn’t ask me that question.I can’t wait to move to Africa. I love and miss it so bad. I’d almost given up on school and gone back if not for my mom …i can’t stand abroad..its boring to me.But my issue now is which country am i moving to?I’m seriously working on that.

NexDim: Tell us about some of your plans for Africa

Range Rover:my plans for AFRICA are huge as I always say I have a mission driven by a vision of a different version. When next we meet i will put it on the table for you hun…

NexDim: How do you cope with  friends,fans and haters ?.

Range Rover:”Good question. As for friends, I do not have a lot, Iuse to have tons when I was on the east coast but it turned out , they had to join my H club which is a better place for them.The girl I call my friend,you should know her Rose Fualem. She’s God sent to me. As for fans, I just love them and try to always answer their questions and understand them and for my haters I always know they’ re ready to serve disaster instead of desert so I am so not thinking about them but I still got love for them”.

NexDim:We hear you have alot of Hollywood celeb friends.

Range Rover:”Yes, i have a couple of them. we always need that extra touch and connections regardless”

NexDim:From the way you dress we do not see you repping Africa.

Range Rover: ”I saw this coming  but it’s not all about what I wear. I breath Africa. My blood runs green,red,yellow and the star. As for repping Africa, i just had my 1st African outfit in 7years made. It’s gorgeous but very simple as I wanted to do something super simple for a start.It was made in 9ja(NIGERIA) and my sweetheart friend brought it over …thanks love…but I am investing in some really cute ones though”.

NexDim:Your last words.

Range Rover:”America is a dream killer to all my Cameroonian African brothers and sisters. If you follow your dreams and wanna live in mars, you will. Never give up. I never did and will never do regardless of how hard it is.
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for those who want to get in touch with Range. you can get her on facebook here http://www.facebook.com/hottestsuperchargedrange

It is clear to  that Lapiro de Mbanga’s case is a political persecution in disguise. He had a really unfair trial in a country which considers itself a country of freedom and human rights, and where justice is supposed to be equal for every citizen.

According to State prosecutor Justice Helen Fon-Achu , “Lapiro should be given an exemplary and dissuasive sanction in order to intimidate those who would try to repeat such act.” So, she asked for a 10 to 20 years jail sentence for him.

The matter of making a decision by the bench would normally have lasted less than one hour. In Lapiro’s case, it took about ten hours. By the end of the day, Lambo Sandjo Pierre Roger; alias Lapiro de Mbanga, was given a sentence of three years in prison and a FCFA 280 millions plus CFA 540,000 fine.

It is difficult to comprehend how an innocent musician can be sanctioned to this extent only because he has to be served as example.

For those who were present in the court room on the 24 June 2009, and to those who followed the court case and the other judgements before it, it appears evident that there was nothing which could have convinced the judges to change their mind in order to to make a fair decision.

Lapiro was accused for instigating looting and destruction of property during the September 2008 strikes of hunger. The demonstrations and the looting happened not only in Mbanga, but also in some main towns of Cameroon, notably in Douala and Yaounde.

After that event, which generally was regarded as a quite reasonable protest of the people against the high cost of living, the Head of State decided to make some changes. He increased the salaries of the Cameroonian state employees, he asked the government to do whatever it would take to reduce the prices of the most important stable products; and for those who had been caught participating in the demonstrations, he issued a presidential pardon.

This is why those who were caught in the same matter as Lapiro are all free now. Despite the fact that everyone recognizes that Lapiro didn’t act on his own, he was acting in complicity with many other people all over the country, he is still condemned to jail with a high amount to pay as fine.

In this matter, where Lapiro is the one who has to pay for all, according to my own investigations, the February event which the judges are so focused on, is only the part of the iceberg which can see above the water line.

In this case, there are problems of leadership, tribalism and politics, even jealousy, below the surface.

Apart from the fact that Lapiro is a traditional chief in Mbanga, he has the ear of the local population. This is why he was called by the SPM authorities (Société des Palmeraies de Mbanga — a palm grove enterprise in Mbanga),. They asked him to use his popularity to stop the destruction and looting carried out by a gang of youths. Lapiro tried to do so, but didn’t succeed.

Why did he fail? Because of a certain gang which is lead by a man whose name given to the court, but who for some surprising reason was never arrested. This gang leader wanted Lapiro’s head, because he considers Lapiro to be their opponent. Lapiro’s father is from the West Region from the Bangoua tribe and his mother is Abong from the Littoral Region in Douala whereas the people of Mbanga are from the Balong tribe. So the gang cannot possibly understand why Lapiro, who is not a native son of the village, could be so popular there.

His popularity even came to a point where he would have won the recent municipal election in Mbanga town for his party, the Social Democratic Front, according to the number of votes in his favour. But nevertheless it was the candidate of the ruling party who officially was declared to be the winner of that election.

Lapiro’s family has been living in Mbanga for many years and in the Cameroonian constitution, every Cameroonian is at home everywhere in the country.

His song ‘Constitution constipée’ (‘Constipated constitution’) was a mean to express his opinion, and also many fellow Cameroonian’s opinion, who didn’t want the constitution to be modified just to enable the president of the republic to continue to stay in power.

The fact that Lapiro is enjoying a high degree of respect from his fans, and that they would listen to him, and follow his orders, was suddenly used against him in the court room. According to the judges, Lapiro could easily have done something to stop the demonstrators if he had wanted to.

Lapiro’s defence lawyer Augustin Mbami has ceased the Supreme Court of Appeal, and the judgement there is now awaited. In relation to this last hope and recourse, it is not to be pessimistic to be saying that unless something is done at an international level, I am afraid we should most likely expect to see this musician serving his full sentence. And that will be unfortunate for the human rights that are so easily flout in certain countries of the world.

EXCERPT  www.freemuse.org

LISTEN TO CONSTITUTION CONSTIPEE THROUGH THIS LINK

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Milwaukee based Cameroonian rapper, Sona The Voice has officially unveiled his second album dubbed ”African JuJu” In this album,Sona preaches a message of struggle and victory of Africa.Talking to the NexDim team, Sona says he  collaborated with Emphasis E on the track entitled “Go”. He  also had a production company in New York called Uprising Production collaborate as well as Jason Samanik engineering the music sequence.Talking to the NexDim team Sona says he chose the title ‘African JuJu’ because he wants to show his worthiness to represent his motherland and the album has nothing to do with masquerades.

The celebrated diva and one of Cameroon’s most dynamic vocalist Bemo Zinnia,is the winner of this year’s  Mutzig National competition organised by Les Brasseries du Cameroun.She finally gets her way through after facing stiff competitors like Jerry,who is also a Buea based artist,bebey and leaby.The final results were proclaimed last night on Canal 2 International infront of about 3 million viewers.The leading trend of Buea based singers winning all Cameroonian song competitions continues.From Achalle as runners up for the National songs competition 2005,Achalle winner of a Star De Demain,a TV reality talent show,BA2M winning the Nescafe African Revelation 2008 to Bemo Zinnia winning the National songs competition 2009.Bemo goes home with a brand new Peugeot 206  SEDAN,a record deal and promotion deal worth 15 million francs CFA and a cash price of 1 million frs CFA.An up close and personal interview with Bemo Zinnia will soon be yours on www.nexdimempire.com

RnB,soul,Afro-beats artiste Steveslil a.k.a RnB Tyga and soul voice winner,star de demain 2005 winner and KORA Nominee Achalle will be unveiling their video cd dubbed CAMEROONIAN DREAM on the 13^th of June 2009 at Amphi 750 of the University of Buea in an event coupled with The Dynasty Awards 2009.This video cd will be the first of its kind ever released in English speaking Cameroon.The content includes videos like I can featuring Adjusta Feeling insecured, play my tambourine,I can remix,gotta go and suzzy.It also includes exclusive interviews accorded to the artistes and Steveslil’s video director,the multi-talented Mambe C-hill Nanje.Steveslil and Achalle are leading RnB,Soul artistes in Cameroon who are setting a pace in the industry and the sky is their limit.

Bemo Zinnia is using her strong and angelic vocals to break through in her bid for the mutzig star winner 2009.She is now at the level of the finals. Bemo Zinnia has been making headline news in Cameroon so far. She missed out traveling to Paris,France with Adele,Mabel and Larry, (BA2M )who were the laureates in the Nescafe African Revelation 2008.According to Bemo,she stayed back to work hard to win the peugot 206 SEDAN ,1 million cash price and the album recording deal which are astake.She won at the preliminary stage in Buea which is an addition credit for her.It should be noted that the Mutzig Caravan is on tour with the 4 finalists all over Cameroon.The tour caravan in Buea saw the performance of other artisteds like Lady PONCE,ACHALLE,and PRINCE AFU AKOM. Vote for Zinnia on www.mutzigstar.com .She is an amazing singer.

Afro-hip hop duo PJ ISRAEL HUSSEIN and GALAXY J ONE that form the group Zionside under the management of Eric are presently making negotiations with a Douala based Video studio to shoot the videos of their hit songs ‘’clip a la télé’’,bouger and E make sense’’.According to their manager, the album has been having limited success because the audio CD was released without a promo video.However,Zionside songs are receiving great airplay on radio stations all over the national territory and the response has been massive so far.NexDim met with Olivier N..K.U, a presenter with RADIO NOSTALGIE in Douala who says ‘clip a la tele’’ is the most requested song on his radio show ‘’Nosta mouv’’.Close to 5000 copies of their CDs have been sold so far after their release in April this year.