Festival to promote cultural values of Fong community holds February.

This was during an audience the Minister of Arts and Culture, Bidoung Mkpatt, granted the President of the Fong people cultural association, KOKO, Didace Francis Boyomo. 

The audience took place Wednesday January 10 at the Conviviality Hall of the National Museum in Yaounde. The festival, according to organisers, will hold in Zoetele, Dja and Lobo Division from February 16-18.

The festival is expected to bring together people from the localities of Zoetele, Evodoula, Obala and Ngoulemekong.

Speaking during the audience, Francis Boyomo noted that the aim of the festival is to promote and pass on the rite and tradition of the Fong people from generation to generation.

The festival, he added, seeks to inculcate in sons and daughters of Fong, the rites and traditions of the clan, valorisation of their rich cuisine as well as help connect them back to their roots.

Boyomo equally used the opportunity to request support from the Minister of Culture to see into the successful organisation of this year’s edition of the festival.

Addressing his guest, the Minister Bidoung Mkpatt congratulated the organisers for all they have been doing for the promotion and preservation of the culture of the Fong population while reiterating the availability of his ministry to see into the success of the festival.

Speaking to reporters at the end of the audience, the Head of the organising committee of the festival, Martin Charles Abessolo, noted that the festival will be a big event that will help reunite the sons and daughters of the Fong clan together. 

The festival, he said, is placed under the banner of the Koko people and they are fully engaged for the event. The festival that brings together the Fong people, he said is one of those festival that seeks to display the rich and diverse cultures of Cameroon.

“At close to a month to the holding if this edition of the festival, we can say progress has been made internally and we are glad for the pledge taken by the Minister of Arts and Culture for a hitch free festival,” the Head of the Organising Committee told reporters.