Ama Tutu Muna officially launches 545th edition of “Nguon”

For one week, the Bamoun cultural festival vibrated the town of Foumban and highlighted the rich heritage of the people.

Ama Tutu Muna officially launched the 545th edition of the “Nguon”, the Bamoun cultural festival on Friday in Foumban.

The festival flaunted the rich heritage of the people to the world through symposia, exhibitions, fairs, sports and other events.

The theme: "what future do we leave behind for our children?", was discussed at length throughout the week. For the sultan Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya, this theme is justified by the concern to ensure an efficient transition of intergenerational experiences between parents and children.

According to him, the theme seeks to "promote our ancestral values that enter into symbiosis with modernism to prevent cultural alienation of children who are called upon to integrate in a globalized world without detaching from their roots in order to keep their "compass" in this context."

For the Minac, this theme is part of constant concern of time. Indeed, she noted that, facing the challenge of modernity, "we are arrested in the double duty of integration of Cameroon in the culture of others and the preservation and transmission of our cultural heritage to the generations that follow. It is our cultural identity that should be preserved and promoted."

It is in this dynamism that Minac undertook since 2009 the work at the national museum that helped to highlight the rich cultural treasure which abounds in Cameroon, as well as the diversity of its culture.

Ama Tutu Muna said her Department is partnering the project of construction of the Museum of Kings in Foumban.