In 1983, Jean-Marie Ahanda, future leader of the famous Têtes Brûlées, led Les Vétérans Du Cameroun. Me Ne Ngon Oyap was their first album, mixing bikutsi and soukous in a cocktail that was as unexpected as it was successful!
A word about the Ebobolo Fia label, of course, illustrated by the famous manioc stick wrapped in a banana leaf whose name it bears, and accompanied by its inseparable avocado. Founded in Yaoundé, the label specialises in more traditional music, giving pride of place to bikutsi with artists such as Les Vétérans, Ange Ebogo Emerent, Anne-Marie Nzié and Ottou Marcellin. Further west, it publishes U Nguo Ya, the only opus by the griot from Foumban, Claude Ndam, whom I met a few times.
