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Before "makossa" as a word existed, the genre of music known as makossa today emerged in the late 20th century. [1] It was based on the currents of musical influence in the city where it was born. The term makossa was founded by Nelle Eyoum. [9] He did this when casually shouting out "kossa kossa" to children who would dance in reaction.
In the mid-1960s, Eboa Lotin performed a style of ambasse bey on harmonica and guitar that was the earliest form of makossa, a style that quickly came to overshadow its predecessor and become Cameroon's most popular form of indigenous music. [4] Ambasse bey was revived to an extent by Cameroonian singer Sallé John. [5]
The ethnicities of Cameroon include an estimated 250 distinct ethnic groups in five regional-cultural divisions. An estimated 38% of the population are Western highlanders–Semi-Bantu or grassfielders including the Bamileke, Bamum, and many smaller Tikar groups in the northwest. 12% are coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Duala, and many smaller groups in the southwest.
Cercle Kapsiki (Hervé Yamguen, Hervé Youmbi, Salifou Lindou, Blaise Bang, Jules Bertrand Wokam). The collective Cercle Kapsiki was created in 1998 by five artists (Blaise Bang, Salifou Lindou, Jules Wokam, Hervé Yamguen et Hervé Youmbi) with the specific aim of producing urban interventions and encouraging the debate on the role of art in the urban space.
The earliest known civilization to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon is known as the Sao civilisation. [6] Known for their elaborate terracotta and bronze artwork and round, walled settlements in the Lake Chad Basin, little else is known with any certainty due to the lack of historical records.
Lotin was born in the city of Douala, in Cameroon. [3] His father was Adolph Lotin Same , a Baptist pastor, who died when Eboa was 3. When he was a young child, his leg was paralyzed due to atrophy resulting from a quinine injection. [4] In 1962, Lotin recorded his first single "Mulema Mwam, Elimba Dikalo".
Bikutsi is a musical genre from Cameroon. It developed from the traditional styles of the Beti, [1] or Ewondo, people, who live around the city of Yaoundé. It was popular in the middle of the 20th century in West Africa. [1] It is primarily dance music. [1]
Petit-Pays (born Adolphe Claude Moundi in Douala, Cameroon on 5 June 1967 [1]) is a Cameroonian musician.. Petit-Pays has over 35 albums to his credit and is the Cameroonian musician with the highest number of songs ever.