FINALLY MAURICE NJOUME DIES OF ABJECT POVERTY AND HEALTH COMPLICATIONS…CAMEROONIANS MOURN
FINALLY MAURICE NJOUME DIES OF ABJECT POVERTY AND HEALTH COMPLICATIONS…CAMEROONIANS MOURN
He had been interned following morbid complications and social networks had previously murdered him since June 5. The famous author of the hit “Maimouna” in 1989, composed and arranged with Toto Guillaume & Aladji Touré will have made his fans languish.
The singer, songwriter was known in Cameroon and beyond through memorable hits that made several generations of Cameroonians dance.
Maimouna
Here is a song that we often dance in our festive ceremonies without knowing the message conveyed there. A sad song that we made festive. It was the Maimouna album and the eponymous title that revealed it to the general public in 1989.
Maïmouna is a very sad song. It is a lived story. This song recounts a violent shock that marked Maurice Njoumé. Maïmouna was his very first girlfriend with whom he was madly in love. The latter had accepted her despite her conditions as a resourceful musician. One day, the latter had come to visit her, at the time of returning, she died in a violent traffic accident.
According to Arol Ketch, carried away by pain and sadness, Maurice Njoumé will compose this song in tribute to this first love. He says in particular this: “Of all the women I have met on this earth, it is only Maïmouna that I have loved, but the bad angels have taken her away from me. I will mourn you “Maïmouna”, until the end of my days”.
