The Classical Music of Cameroon’s Bamoun Kingdom (In Bassa

http://SupremeMasterTV.com – The Classical Music of Cameroon’s Bamoun Kingdom (In Bassa). Episode: 1755, Air Date: 5 July 2011. <br /><br />Today’s Enlightening Entertainment will be presented in Bassa and French, with subtitles in Arabic, Aulacese (Vietnamese), Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai. <br /><br />Welcome, open-hearted viewers. Cameroon, admired as “Africa in miniature,” offers not only vibrant natural and cultural diversity but also some of the coolest native styles of African music. Let’s find out more by going to the city of Foumban. This is the historical capital of the Bamoun Kingdom of Cameroon and an important center for indigenous African arts and music. <br /><br />Yes, this is what is called kwekwet. <br /><br />Kwekwet in Bamoun means shoumoungwé. Shoumoungwé is a woman’s mouth because women chatter a lot. It’s Bamoun men who named it so. And this is what we call the sanza. It h