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 intern
al 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. Further more, our Group holds on to the principles of “two orientations” (namely the orientations of artistically serving the African people using African democracy of socialism), “double hundred policy” (which contains the meaning that let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend), and “three closes to” (that is, close to the reality, close to the life, and close to the common people), and then meet the African public’s increasing demand for spiritual culture and tourism. Founded in 2000 by a group of Nigerian, Ghanaian Congolese, Egyptian, Kenyan, Malian, Gambian, Cameroonian, Ethiopian and South African Artists we where originally situated in Nsanarakati-Oyumojock of the Southern Cameroons with 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 inter into our organization underscores the vitality of, and avid interest in theatre at our branch office in 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 wide 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” in the Southern Cameroons by Agbor Marts its earliest founding member and latter “Fufu & Afang” in Nigeria, there has been an unbroken record of entertainment seasons, first in Douala-Cameroon and presently in Uyo-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, Makwiza Siwambanza of DR Congo and Patrick Obam of the Republic of Cameroon where nominated as executive members of the organization with Agbor Martins Enoh one of its earliest founding members ascending to the post of the chairman. 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 with the blessings of Government of Cross River State of Nigeria, its Traditional rulers and people, at the same time making final preparations to participate in a World Tourism symposium/Musical tour scheduled to hold in New York this 2016.
