Fan Thomas,
Adeline Mbenkum elected President and VP
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| Sam Fan Thomas |
The
Cameroonian Association of Musical Artistes, SONACAM, has finally taken off
following the election of veteran artiste, Sam Fan Thomas as President of the
Board of Directors of the new association. Sam Fan Thomas and his Vice, Adeline
Mbenkum were chosen consensually during a marathon and heated General Assembly
that took place Saturday at the Yaounde Conference Center. The General Assembly
was supervised by the Minister of Arts and Culture, Prof NarcisseMouelle Kombi.
Comprising over 1500 artistes,
SONACAM is a fusion of the former CMC and SOCAM. It is now the lone association
licensed to manage author’s rights of the musical category in Cameroon.
“It is a new dawn for artistes
with the advent of a new musical rights corporation. With SONACAM we hope to
correct the mistakes of the past because all the problems we had before were
due to bad governance and mismanagement,” said the new VP of SONACAM, Adeline
Mbenkum.
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| Adeline Mbenkum |
Afo’Akom for example hopes that
with SONACAM, artistes will be able to come out of the status of beggars to
that of respectable income earners in society. He also prayed that with the
coming of SONACAM, Cameroonian artistes will henceforth be able to live off the
fruits of their sweat, unlike has been the case in decades passed.
Other artistes expressed the
hope that the new corporation will help to weed out charlatans and other bad
seeds from the artistes fold.
Speaking at the General
Assembly, the minister of arts and culture exhorted the artistes to bury the
hatchet and look up to SONACAM for brighter days. Prof Kombi pledged the full
support of the government to the new author’s rights body.
By virtue of the bi-laws of the
new association, the board of directors have a mandate of three years renewable
once.
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