Category: Music

CAN MBOLE GROW TO BECOME A STRONG MOVEMENT?
Mbole music has been around for a decade and is only just starting to take shape and form as a brand of music of its own. 90% of that time, it has liv [...]

GASHA ANNOUNCES NEW EP
We are pretty excited about this one. Gasha releases the tracklist for her upcoming EP.
The most interesting thing about this EP is that it will be G [...]

WIZKID’S LOSS & THE PROBLEM WITH THE GRAMMYS
On Sunday, Wizkid lost the Grammy award for Best Global Album to Angelique Kidjo. It marked the second time, in three years, that a Nigerian urban act [...]

BRAND AMBASSADOR DEALS IN CAMEROON: THE KO-C & RUN DMC PARADIGM
Run-DMC was hip-hop’s very first superstar, commercially-successful, music group. They burst onto rap the scene in 1983 and made the first really big [...]

MONETIZING A FANBASE AND MUSIC SALES STATS IN CAMEROON
In February 2019 when Jovi released his fourth studio album God Don Kam, reports were flying around that the album had sold 50,000 copies. I made a po [...]

ULANDA: CAMEROON’S RISING MAKOSSA SENSATION
She burst into the Cameroonian music scene in December 2020 with the release of ‘One Day,’ a song that could have been a product of the likes of Grace [...]

SANGO EDI ON THE PATH OF MAKOSSA
When Sango Edi announced that he had released a single titled Moukanjo back in 2020, the avid music listener that I am did not quite know what t [...]

OF WHAT USE ARE RECORDS LABELS IN CAMEROON?
The average Cameroonian understands a record label to be a business that has as objective to scout, develop, market and promote artists. In a post on [...]

SNAZZY SHIKENA: AFRO LOVE LP, THE ARTIST, AND TIMING
Snazzy is one of those artists that has just not managed to be in the right place at the right time. His music shows his diversity in style and he has [...]

LION OF AFRICA IS A MAJESTIC DECLARATION OF MUSICAL SOVEREIGNTY
When Mr. Leo released the music video for “Time” in September 2020, it was a subtle announcement; a quiet purr from a remote corner of the pride lands [...]