Remembering Um Nyobè. Conversations on Cameroonian History. Blick Bassy chose the medium of song to evoke the memory of Ruben Um Nyobè, the Cameroonian independence leader who was assassinated in 1958. That’s how the album 1958 (No Format) was born. But he also wanted to hear and allow others to hear Cameroonian storyteller Binda Ngazolo’s views on the history of the country, and of this hero whom they nicknamed Mpodol, which means ‘he who speaks for his people.’ Binda Ngazolo takes us on a narrated historical flashback, in which bitterness is kept at bay by trenchant humour, and which evokes that old proverb beloved of the ancients: “when you fall, you mustn’t look at the place you fell, but at the thing that made you stumble.” If you don’t know that, you’ll never be able to get back on your own two feet again? That’s the essence of this web-series, and of the premise put forward by Blick Bassy. Buy/Stream "1958" : lnk.to/Blickbassy-1958