Mbog Liaa Festival: Takeoff is June 25

Sons and daughters of Bassa-Bati-Mpo’o will showcase their rich cultural values for 9 days.

The Camtel Complex in Bepanda will be at the centre of attraction from June 25th to July 3, 2016, following the organisation of the 2016 Mbog Liaa Festival. The Festival will engages communities that originated from the Ngog Lituba Cave (Bassa, Bati and the Mpo’o people). The revelation was made public by the “Adna Maten Ma Mbog Liaa,” association headed by its President, Jérôme Minlend, during a press diner in Douala April 26.

Jérôme Minlend disclosed that the 2016 Mbog Liaa festival will go beyond dancing as it used to be. Sons and daughters from the five regions of Cameroon where the Ngog Lituba people are settled including the Littoral, Centre, South and South West were encouraged to participate: “There is no other way to know where we came from and where we are going to, than through festivals like the upcoming Mbog Liaa festival”.

The return to the ancestral ground will promote the culture of the descendants of the Ngog Lituba Cave, as well as seal the bond of unity between the people scattered in the five regions of Cameroon.

The festival that will be carried out in a well constructed cultural village at the Camtel Bepanda esplanade will comprise about 250 stands with 100 of them reserved for gastronomy, where visitors will savour the cuisine of the Ngog Lituba people.

The President of the Organising Committee, His Majesty Joseph Antoine Bell, said the 5th edition to be presided at by the Minister of Arts and Culture is placed under the theme: “The Call.” For nine days the Bassa, Bati and Mpo’o people will carry out parades in Edea, Eséka, Kumba, Limbe, Kribi, Makak, Pouma, Song Mbengue and Yabassi among others.

The cultural fiesta will also be marked by popular traditional dance parade like Assiko, Bekelè, Bolbo, Bog Mbes and Makunè, among others. Debates on general interest, gospel music award election of Miss Mbog Liaa 2016, a football match between former Dynamo of Douala and former Indomitable Lions players and a musical concert that will bring together Belka Tobbis, Tumba Minka and Xmaleya is also on programme.

The press briefing was graced with the presence of the Littoral Regional Delegate of Arts and Culture, Ndoye Messi Edouard Michel, and one of the Association’s Advisers, Hervé Emmanuel Nkom.