ENGLISH CAMEROON ENTERTAINERS: AMATEURS WITH BIG DREAMS.

Recently, Anglophone Cameroon’s social atmosphere has been bombarded with zillions of ‘entertainers’, with most of them having unbounded hopes about their future. Be it in spheres of music, movies, fashion, comedy or dance, one realizes that their alacrity to indulge in these fields is not only backed by their talent or know-how, but by the immensity of their amateurism. 

I am not saying there are no professional entertainers in English Cameroon, for that will be a fallible purview. However, with the blatant mishmash of obstreperous ‘entertainers’ who consistently rely on the same antediluvian schemes which help in creating an environment of social apathy, I have no option but to point out their abysmal activities which continue to stench with pernicious results.

Being someone who has the industry at heart, I can’t grapple with the fact that the multitude of ‘entertainers’ have resolved to absolute denigration of the very ethics that bind the social communion of intellectual entertainment. It’s usual to see these very novices make much ado about nothing as they portray a social sanctimonious depiction of themselves, littered with abortive attempts at being successful.

Today, movies are made for the sake of fame, music is sung with a pathological indifference to professionalism and comedy has now become the antithesis of quality entertainment. The fate of the industry remains at the same level due to the actions of some execrable promoters who propitiate by a load of hogwash publicity.

The amorphous nature of our industry reflects in the aloof nature of the public as they shy away from entertainment events. I am calling on a massive extradition of all these social novices who continue to abhor the need for professionalism. We need to promote those who through constant polymorphous research have enlightened themselves and the industry as a whole. Only then can we reap from the splendour of our actions.     

END OF YEAR MESSAGE TO FANS OF ENGLISH CAMEROON ENTERTAINMENT

My people of the same struggle, accept warm greetings from your highly controversial writer and social activist. It has been a highly tumultuous year for the English Cameroon Entertainment Industry, one punctuated with bits and pieces of intellectual brilliance in various forms. It is the end of another year, but hopefully not the end of the entertainment vision.

To recap the highlights of the year would not play justice to the cause, but it would be of utmost necessity if praise and rejection were handed down to all those who deserved it. Allow me begin with the chaotic individuals, through whom their actions have set us back hundreds of years, by their refusal to become professionals. 

When I see the level of incompetence dwelling in their very amateuristic tendencies, I cannot help but pray that they see the light of day as the New Year unveils itself. As a comedian, I have been amazed and appalled by the two-ended nature of quality comedy in Anglophone Cameroon. Everyone wants to do everything, and anyone wants to do anything. This makes me puke with vile disdain for their utter disregard for professionalism.

However, some entertainers have made me realise there is hope, that there is a speck of optimism that hovers over the dark cloud that rains hundreds of amateurs on the entertainment horizon. They have managed to brave through the regular myths of the disbelief in hard work and have let the world know that something good can emanate from Anglophone Cameroon. I mention names like Freddash Model Agency, Jovi LeMonstre, Gold Age Productions, Mumak, February 16^th, Red Eye Entertainment, just to name but these. 

It is my prayer and hope that as the New Year unfolds, we will have more professional entertainers who will let their work of arts trickle down the very masses who ought to be involved in the very activities they promote, and that they would let the rest of Africa know we can achieve what we have always longed for. That would be the very epitome of quality entertainment in English Cameroon. Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year to all.