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New Album 1958: https:\/\/lnk.to\/Blickbassy-1958
\nWatch the 1958 series: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2FrHonm
\n1958 TOUR: https:\/\/blickbassy.com\/<\/p>\n

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1955. People all over Africa are rising up and proclaiming freedom. When a new independence movement blossoms in Cameroon, the reaction of the French colonial administration is swift and brutal. France\u2019s main adversary is a man called Ruben Um Nyob\u00e8, a trade union leader, orator, humanist and visionary. A man of his aura, intelligence and courage seems destined to join Nelson Mandela in the hall of African heroes. Instead, he’s hunted down by the colonial army and butchered in 1958, his body buried in concrete to better erase his memory.
\nFor years, the horror of this \u2018hidden war\u2019 and the fate of its heroic leader are smothered under a pall of enforced amnesia. Blick Bassy has dedicated his latest album, ‘1958’, to Ruben Um Nyob\u00e8 and the heroes of the Cameroonian Independence, in the hope of breaking that silence forever and reconnecting the people with their true history. <\/p>\n

Tebogo Malope (South African music Awards best music video 2018 with \u00ab Spirit \u00bb) says \u00ab The narrative of this heroic leader Ruben Um Nyobe is one that resonates throughout the continent. A continent still grappling with the legacy of colonialism and the attempts to redress the consequences thereof. The visual approach of the video seeks to be a meditation on our leadership as a continent, what could have been if some hadn\u2019t been massacred, what is? Because of the might of imperial Europe, What should be? And what hope do we have moving forward? This is echoed in the first couple of scenes which resemble the first chapter of Kenya\u2019s renowned Author Ngugi Wa Thiongo\u2019s book Matigari where a freedom fighter is spotted laying down his arms for a supposed prosperous future where bloodshed shall be no more, will he regret the decision? Another visual representation at the end spawns from the images of a lifeless freedom fighter turning into a tree reminiscent of South African political icon Solomon Mahlangu who was killed by the Apartheid government, who\u2019s last words before his death were “My blood will nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom.\u201d The song seeks to reconnect the Cameroonian people with their history, the visuals attempt to draw parallels between Cameroonian history and the history of Africa as a whole.\u00bb <\/p>\n

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\u00c0 propos du clip, le r\u00e9alisateur Tebogo Malope explique :
\n\u00ab L\u2019histoire de Ruben Um Nyob\u00e9 a une r\u00e9sonance sur tout le continent Africain, toujours aux prises avec son h\u00e9ritage post colonial. Que serait-il arriv\u00e9 si certains leaders de sa trempe n\u2019avaient pas \u00e9t\u00e9 massacr\u00e9s ? Quel espoir pour nous d\u2019aller de l\u2019avant ? Je me suis inspir\u00e9 dans les premi\u00e8res sc\u00e8nes du clip du livre Matigari du c\u00e9l\u00e8bre auteur Kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiongo, dans lequel un combattant de la libert\u00e9 d\u00e9pose les armes dans l\u2019espoir d’un avenir prosp\u00e8re, sans effusion de sang. Regrettera-t-il sa d\u00e9cision ? A la fin, les images d\u2019un combattant de la libert\u00e9 sans vie se transformant en arbre rappellent celles de l\u2019ic\u00f4ne politique Sud Africaine Solomon Mahlangu, tu\u00e9 par le gouvernement de l\u2019Apartheid et dont les derni\u00e8res paroles furent : \u00ab mon sang nourrira l’arbre qui portera les fruits de la libert\u00e9 \u00bb La chanson de Blick cherche \u00e0 r\u00e9tablir le lien entre le peuple camerounais et son histoire. Les images de cette video tentent de faire le parall\u00e8le entre l\u2019histoire camerounaise et l\u2019histoire de l\u2019Afrique dans son ensemble.\u00bb<\/p>\n

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Production Company: The Star Film Co
\nDirector: Tebza
\nExecutive Producer: Ksenija Strydom-Micic
\nCo-Producers: Nomtha Dano and Mbuyi Makanda
\nArt Direction and Costume Designer: Tamzyn Botha
\nDP: Justus de Jager
\nPost Production: Left Post Production
\nEditor: Saki \u201cFokken\u201d Bergh
\nColourist: Keno
\nPost Production: Geppetto\u2019s Workshop
\nVFX: Gui Felix
\nAnimation: Yolandi Meiring
\nFinal Mix: Louis Enslin<\/p>\n

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\n2019 TOUR<\/p>\n

17.05.2019 DORTMUND (DE) KLANGVOKAL Musikfestival Dortmund
\n01.06.2019 ANGOULEME (FR) Festival Musiques M\u00e9tisses 2019
\n09.06.2019 NIJMEGEN (NL) Music Meeting
\n11.06.2019 LISBOA (PT) Teatro da Trindade
\n28.06.2019 MONTREAL (CA) Festival Intl de Jazz de Montr\u00e9al
\n29.06.2019 VANCOUVER (CA) Vancouver International Jazz Festival
\n30.06.2019 NYC (US) Summer Stage NYC
\n03.07.2019 GHENT (BE) Gent Jazz Festival
\n09.07.2019 LAUSANNE (CH) Festival de la Cit\u00e9 Lausanne
\n19.07.2019 SALISBURY (UK) Larmer Tree Festival
\n20.07.2019 LYON (FR) Festival Les Nuits de Fourvi\u00e8re
\n28.07.2019 AULNOYE AYMERIES (FR) Les Nuits Secr\u00e8tes
\n03.08.2019 FLOREFFE (BE) ESPERANZAH! <\/p>\n

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