Music : This World, These Happenings!

Over the years, he gradually imprinted his name in local show business. And so, is no newcomer to Cameroonian music. Especially with Congolese Rhumba touch. Already boasting more than 10 single soul-searching songs, Shifu Brain Lumba - also known as Lumba Mokonzi (the Lingala word for king) - has been stealing his way to prominence. After seven years of singing and releasing songs, Mokonzi, 31, a Douala-based truck driver  from Ndu in Donga-Mantung Division of the North West Region, is now set. 
To put out his very first music album on the market. On November 19, 2022. At 5 pm in Douala in the WACUDA Hall opposite HYSACAM, on the street that leads to Terminus. “I chose the title, “Buu njipgong,” (The things of this world) because of what I have witnessed and personally lived; which are all big life lessons to me. Most of the songs talk about the positive and negative happenings in life,” explains Lumba. Who is fondly referred to as “the King of Cameroonian Rhumba music.”  
The 11-track album features Cameroonian artistes like Dao de Bango, Mamu Nyata, Decaprio, Hilda Mic and DJ Demasco. It includes songs like “Doctor,” “Vanity,” “Jangma” (a traditional Wimbum dance), “Menesi we Nyu” (I worship You Lord) “Mbu njok keh?” (Why?) and “Brother.” The album was recorded in Kump Production Studio, Bonaberi, Douala. “The public has been appreciating my music since I started releasing songs in 2015. I believe the time has now come to release my first album and see what the local showbiz industry offers. The money I have made from music so far was ma...