Stanley Enow to organise Living Together Festival in Yaounde.

This was during an audience with the Minister of Arts and Culture, MINAC Bidoung Mkpatt.

The event that will be held at the Ahmadou Ahidjo stadium in Yaounde targets about 40,000 spectators.

The author of the 2024 hit song Take Ova, explained that: “I’m a child who wants to offer something great to his country. The Living Together Festival is a big project that will bring together artists from the 10 regions and internationally-renowned artists with whom I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate in the past. It’s about showing them our savoir-vivre”.

According to Stanley Enow, the initiative is to show the world the wealth of talent found in Cameroon. 

The Banyangi Boy, who put up a great performance at the Olembe Stadium during the curtain-raiser in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON 2021, intends to repeat the experience. 

He further revealed that a few days to the show, entrepreneurial training will be offered in a variety of sectors, with micro-financing available for the best projects.

In his address to the minister, the rapper expressed a number of shortcomings on his side with regards to organising the festival and implored the minister for support. 

Some of the grievances the artiste listed included the integration of the festival into the official cultural programme of the country, and the provision of technical, logistical, security and administrative support throughout the preparation and running of the event.

Minister Bidoung Mkpatt in response to the artiste’s request mentioned that a technical committee made up of MINAC officials will be set up to support the organising committee of the Living Together Festival. 

The minister had earlier commended the artiste for the initiative, highlighting its importance and relevance to the country.

“It is an important project that gives concrete expression to the missions assigned to our ministry by organic texts: living together, integration, unity,” Minister Bidoung Mkpatt underscored.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3372 of Friday February 21, 2025