NIGERIAN MUSIC – REVIVING THE MAKOSSA FEVER .

Makossa music owes its origin from the Duala tribe in Cameroon. Delving back in 70’s, Cameroon music was internationally embraced with a myriad of artists like Francis Bebe, Eboa Lottin, Misse Ngoh ,Manu Dibango, Dina Bell, Sam Fan Thomas etc printing indelible marks in the music market.  Excerpts of Manu Dibango’s music have been used by Michael Jackson , Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez to make incredible hits. Makossa witnessed a tremendous downswing with the infiltration of soukous , ndombolo, coupe decale etc in Cameroon in the early 90s. Did Petit Pays and Kotto Bass devalue makossa ? . Cameroonian makossa artists injected a high tempo and adulterated the melody believing it could be more commercial. The rich, and sophisticated genre of music called ''Makossa'' has now been dwindled to a sequence of regular bass patterns and rhythm which takes very little time and energy  to produ

ce. Seasoned and adept Cameroonian makossa producers like Sam Fan Thomas , Edgar Yankeu , Ndedi Eyango and Romeo Dika can testify this .

 A deluge of music fans across the world have been jiving to popular Nigerian songs like ‘E no easy’’ ,’’oyoyo’’ produced by J Martins, ‘’Girl’’, ‘my beautiful baby’’ by Bracket ,’’Kedike’’ by Chidinma, just to name a few which I think are pirate versions of makossa music which originates from Cameroon. Shakira was equally ensnared when she copied from Zangalewa to make an international hit. Nigerian artists have been thriving across the world with this genre of music which sounds like makossa . It now seems 'de rigeur'. ''Kukere'' by Iyanya is just a quintessence .