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arrived at Le Meridien Hotel in Bonanjo, Douala on December 30th, 2014 just in time for the highly
anticipated “Bold and Beautiful Camer Ladies”, BBCL event. This event was the brain child of some bold and beautiful Camer ladies pictured below.
It started as an idea, an opportunity and a necessity for a fusion between Cameroon bloggers at home and those in the diaspora. They wanted to connect in real life and exchange ideas. However, the event they decided to put together is more than just a meet and greet event. It is a networking event that has attracted many businesses as they know this is an opportunity to brand their products and be visible to the thousands of followers following these bloggers.
Social media is the new way to push businesses to the right clients.
The Bold & Beautiful Camer Ladies (BBCL) group was established with the intention of bringing together young and dynamic Cameroonian ladies who are very active worldwide in promoting their business activities, mainly on social media. The group currently has over 400 members located around the world with a potential reach of over 600,000.
FabAfriq Magazine is pleased to be amongst the founding members of this amazing event and would like to invite all it fans to join us as we unveil what 2015 has in store for us. Here below, is a little bit of information about the heads behind this event and where they blog.
Chantal Edie is a photographer and the Owner of Chantal Edie Photography
Anrette Ngafor is a Fashion Designer and Creator of the Liiber London, a Fashion clothing line
Delly Vibang is the genius behind multiple websites like Ferdelle.com and several others
Hilda Awambeng is a Fashion blogger, Stylist and Creator of Mammypi, a Fashion & Lifestyle Blog
Adeline Sede is the Publisher/Founder of FabAfriq Magazine, a Fashion & Lifestyle Magazine
Antonia Mundi is the Publisher/Founder of Maischna Magazine, a Fashion & Lifestyle Magazine
Reneta Ndisang is a Fashion Designer and Creator of Mareta West, a Fashion clothing line
Yefon Mainsah is a Blogger and the Creator of IRepCamer, a Lifestyle & Entertainment Blog
Mbole Ekaney is a Fashion Blogger and the Creator of The Hotjem, a Fashion & Lifestyle Blog
These bold and beautiful ladies organised the event and also racked up sponsors such as Baileys and Madiba Consultants. It was the third such meeting in our inaugural bloggers meet year, 2014. After dining and wining, (NGO damay) we all made our way to the hall for the main event. There were close to a hundred participants. Compare that to the fifteen who attended the first one at White House in Bonapriso and you’ll guess we’re forging ahead.
I admired the hotel’s exquisite architectural layout and Christmas illumination as I made my way to the pool side where bloggers, fashion designers, models, entrepreneurs etc were being treated to a fabulous buffé (manna from heavenly blogosphere) and shack. (You want know whetti bi shack? Shack mean say jong. Lingua K-mer). Non K-mer google up. Lol.
Meet The Social Media Manawas @ A Business Opportunity for Top Brands
It started as an idea, an opportunity and a necessity for a fusion between Cameroon bloggers at home and those in the diaspora. They wanted to connect in real life and exchange ideas. However, the event they decided to put together is more than just a meet and greet event. It is a networking event that has attracted many businesses as they know this is an opportunity to brand their products and be visible to the thousands of followers following these bloggers.
Social media is the new way to push businesses to the right clients.
The Bold & Beautiful Camer Ladies (BBCL) group was established with the intention of bringing together young and dynamic Cameroonian ladies who are very active worldwide in promoting their business activities, mainly on social media. The group currently has over 400 members located around the world with a potential reach of over 600,000.
FabAfriq Magazine is pleased to be amongst the founding members of this amazing event and would like to invite all it fans to join us as we unveil what 2015 has in store for us. Here below, is a little bit of information about the heads behind this event and where they blog.
Chantal Edie is a photographer and the Owner of Chantal Edie Photography
Anrette Ngafor is a Fashion Designer and Creator of the Liiber London, a Fashion clothing line
Delly Vibang is the genius behind multiple websites like Ferdelle.com and several others
Hilda Awambeng is a Fashion blogger, Stylist and Creator of Mammypi, a Fashion & Lifestyle Blog
Adeline Sede is the Publisher/Founder of FabAfriq Magazine, a Fashion & Lifestyle Magazine
Antonia Mundi is the Publisher/Founder of Maischna Magazine, a Fashion & Lifestyle Magazine
Reneta Ndisang is a Fashion Designer and Creator of Mareta West, a Fashion clothing line
Yefon Mainsah is a Blogger and the Creator of IRepCamer, a Lifestyle & Entertainment Blog
Mbole Ekaney is a Fashion Blogger and the Creator of The Hotjem, a Fashion & Lifestyle Blog
These bold and beautiful ladies organised the event and also racked up sponsors such as Baileys and Madiba Consultants. It was the third such meeting in our inaugural bloggers meet year, 2014. After dining and wining, (NGO damay) we all made our way to the hall for the main event. There were close to a hundred participants. Compare that to the fifteen who attended the first one at White House in Bonapriso and you’ll guess we’re forging ahead.
I admired the hotel’s exquisite architectural layout and Christmas illumination as I made my way to the pool side where bloggers, fashion designers, models, entrepreneurs etc were being treated to a fabulous buffé (manna from heavenly blogosphere) and shack. (You want know whetti bi shack? Shack mean say jong. Lingua K-mer). Non K-mer google up. Lol.
The
master of ceremonies for the night was Hilda Awambeng, who introduced the panel; Mbole Ekaney, Yefon Mainsah, Anrette Ngafor and music lover Takor. Techies Churchill and Clifford Ako of Wasamundi were
also available for technical support. Last but not least, Chantal Edie was the
photographer.
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| MC HIlda |
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| Panel |
Each
of the panel members gave a talk on various blogging issues and from their
angles of fashion, music, work and advice on how to blog better and build a
wider audience, so as to attract companies who can come up with publicity deals.
There were many questions and contributions from the attendees. There were complaints
and counter complaints from some and advice, technical advice and more advice
from the tireless panel. I learnt loads of new things from the panel’s advice
and I got a little irritated from some of the attendee complaints.
And
among all that serious blogging-talking, questioning, advising and technical
advising, the organizers managed to spice our blogosphere with fabulous
rainbows; the rainbows being the fashion costumes adorning the bodies of the
tall beautiful models, who paraded our hall’s runway like they were all Naomi
Campbells.
Finally,
there was acoustic sunshine in the blogosphere dazzling as beautiful music from
three brilliant, young Cameroonian artists. The first artist to perform (whose
name I missed) made us gyrate to his strong Cameroonian rhythms. Next, came the
contemporary makossa artiste, Wax Nde who tore down the roof with his
performance singing a song that he worked on with…oh hoo, hear the name well oh,
Koko master, D’Banj. Ooooshea! Wax Nde’s new album “Makossa” is out now. Get
your copy oh! With collabos by Femi Kuti, D’Banj and other household names in
African music. The boy is good.
The third and final artiste of the evening was our young, magnificent Reggae star girl, Daphne who performed a gospel song before blowing our hearts away with her hit track, “Rastafari” which is topping the music charts on Trace Africa right now. She’s even been on the number one spot there y’all. She’s put a beautiful soulful twist on her reggae music and it’s something you’ll not want to miss in your music repertoire.
After her performance she went to the open air section to deliver an interview to the Urban TV crew who were also filming the occasion. (Hey, but Daphne is not “smoke high as a Marley oh!” She nodi “fume le gae like Jovi oh” Meme si elle fume le gae, “Et p8 koi?” Uh? The talk and performances ended but the professional hook ups took off then. The BBCL event was one successful one. And we know it’s going to be even bigger in 2015. Happy new year y’all.
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| Wax Nde and Adeline Sede kamga of Fabafriq magazine |
The third and final artiste of the evening was our young, magnificent Reggae star girl, Daphne who performed a gospel song before blowing our hearts away with her hit track, “Rastafari” which is topping the music charts on Trace Africa right now. She’s even been on the number one spot there y’all. She’s put a beautiful soulful twist on her reggae music and it’s something you’ll not want to miss in your music repertoire.
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| Daphne performing "Rastafari" |
After her performance she went to the open air section to deliver an interview to the Urban TV crew who were also filming the occasion. (Hey, but Daphne is not “smoke high as a Marley oh!” She nodi “fume le gae like Jovi oh” Meme si elle fume le gae, “Et p8 koi?” Uh? The talk and performances ended but the professional hook ups took off then. The BBCL event was one successful one. And we know it’s going to be even bigger in 2015. Happy new year y’all.
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| moi |
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| Popular blogger Yefon Mainsah and I |
*Two pictures and part of my article, courtesy of Yefon Mainsah's blog "I Rep Camer."
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