WHO WE ARE
We are a liberal musical and theater arts group specialized in multiple arts disciplines ranging from African tourist sites creation, dance, music, opera, theatre, musical theatre, illusion, mime, spoken word and comedy, puppetry, circus arts, and performance arts. As a group, we adhere to the principle of democracy, positive change and development.
Through the integration of our internal and external resources, our Group is flexible in ideas of operation as it strengthens the consciousness of innovation, production of competitive products and high-quality arts services. We actively participate in inter-African state and even global arts events, performances and competitions so as to make our group an enterprise playing leading roles in African arts while at the same time, advancing with the world.
With
arts reforms and innovation as our driving force, by deepening African arts
reformation in its mechanism, optimizing the African entertainment industry
structure and improving on our management, we aim at establishing an African
modern enterprise system by promoting constant emerging of African fine
art works and new talents in African art
performances.
We bring forth new ideas into production, propagation, circulation, consumption and investment mode of African art and performance works. This we do by getting through the upstream, midstream, and downstream of the African performance industry so that the core competence of our group can fully and greatly be boosted and appreciated worldwide.
OUR HISTORY
Founded
in 2000 in South Africa by a group of Nigerian, South African, Ghanaian
Congolese, Egyptian, Kenyan, Malian, Gambian, Cameroonian, and Ethiopian Artists we where latter moved to Nsanarakati-Oyumojock
of the Southern Cameroons.
As a group, we are greatly admired thanks to
our considerable cultural, artistic, and intellectual integrity that is easily
reached within our traditional African libraries and arts museums.
All
the traditional mystics involved in our Group’s ancestral inheritance of
customs, culture and traditions of African theatre arts and science of dance
dates back from the 9th century. The involvement of many African Music
professionals and African theater artists yearly that enter into our organization
underscores the vitality of, and avid interest in theatre at our headquarters located
in Cultural Center complex, Calabar in Cross River State of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
Many
local and traditional African arts institutions approach our program in
longevity and productivity while most of our former traditional arts students
specialized in African arts, actors, techniques and African traditional
playwrights in towns and villages throughout Central and West Africa, having
brought with them a heightened sensitivity of dramatic African literature and a
strong awareness of the complexity and creativity involved in most African arts
yet known by the larger world.
Our
activities which began since 2000 have flourished in difficulty due to lack of
promotion. Throughout the above period, various traditional African organizations
presented to our organization productions musicals, African dramas, and revues
at our former location at Oyumojock, one of our area of operation and
throughout the region of the South Cameroons. With the publication of a famous musical
debut album “Fufu and Eru, bayangi style” in the republic of Cameroon by our
founding chairman and latter “Fufu &
Afang, Calabar style” in Nigeria, there
has been an unbroken record of entertainment seasons, first in Douala-Cameroon
and presently in Calabar-Nigeria.
Apart
from our participation in tourism village construction programs in 2010 in the Congo,
theatre presentations in Egypt and Kenya, and dance concerts both in Africa and
in the Diaspora, we have since then became a regular feature of our own
collective arts activities in local African communities.
Classes
in African science of Moni Nkim &
Ekombi Dance Arts and Performance Studies in most of our Ejagham
communities of eastern Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons went operational in Oyumojock
in late 2012. And in 2013, an Official Separate Program of Ekpo Tiaba, Ekpe and
Obasinjom Theatre Arts were established in Nsanarakati, an ancient village in
the Southern Cameroons. Those programs include African science of drumming and
the science of Speed and slow Dance.
1n
2015, John Ubokulo a native of Oron of
Akwa Ibom State, Wemba Siwanza of DR Congo and Patrick Obam of the Republic of Cameroon where
nominated as executive members of the organization.
Moving
into the future, we hope to enhance more profoundly, African science of dance
and design, integrating them more fully into a special track of African
traditional research and study for global arts appreciation and consumption.
We
are presently engaged in a tourism project in Cross River State of Nigeria, at
the same time making final preparations to participate in a World Tourism
symposium/Musical tour scheduled to hold in New York this 2016.
Chief Onen Oka Omenka and other board members after his appointment as a signatory to the Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers Funds
