Turning Cameroon into the first African Cultural Republic

The Festival des Arts Nègres that opened in Dakar, Senegal on the December 10th is a great plateform for Cameroon filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo whose "Les Saignantes" will be screened at this historical event created by the President-Poet Léopold Sedar Senghor 43 years ago. Jean-Pierre Bekolo has just started in his home country Cameroon an organization called TALENT COALITION whose objective is bring african ingenuity, creativity and inspiration in the resolution of problems facing the continent. He thinks that "we should not accept the idea that the best of our people can't live at home and participate in building our continent. Because colonization has turn most of our development problems into cultural problems, we should also seek the solutions in the culture created in the past and in the present by our ingenuity. We have to bring human at the center of development. Our long term goal is to turn most of African countries into Cultural Republics the same there are Islamic republics. We believe that creative people such as artists and inventors have so much to contribute to our continent that we will make sure we have more artist-présidents like Senghor who gave Senegal the image senegalese are so proud of today."