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| Alenne Menget |
I am called Alenne Menget. I am from Njen-Batibo in the Momo Division, North West Region of Cameroon.
I am founder and CEO of the ATS Productions based in
Akwa Douala. I am an investigative journalist with a television /movie
production and action background. ATS Production was a dream of more than fifteen
years when I was still doing my secondary education in Bamenda. We are the
frontline producers of some of the most important documentary films about
Cameroon with more than 65.000 YouTube viewers within eight months through our
three Youtube channels.
We have produced a total
of 72 investigated documentaries and we are in the process of producing another
52 this year. Our domain also includes the production of talk shows, reality
shows, movies, soap operas, music, radio and television spots and jingles,
music clips. We also install radio and television stations, etc.
Bamenda happens to be
the best place in the world to me. This can always be noticed from the smile I
put on when I descend the station hill each time I visit my hometown. ”The land
of plenty” as I usually refer to the North West Region has the most beautiful
landscape in the world with very hospitable people living on it.
One
thing has inevitably emerged as pillar of the 21st century life is the
central command, which the media have emerged to hold. The media have been at
the centre of all human activities, but at no time has it arrogated such power
influencing growth and development of our society.
All
over, the North West Region, people are investing enormous quantities of
efforts in setting up private media establishments, which have become the real
determinant of progress in nowadays life. Whether it is print, audio, or audio
visual, the media remain the one most powerful and influential instrument that
any community can be endowed with, today. I was part of the start of this new
generation of media in the North West Region.
It
is true that a lot of local powerful media men and I have gone out in search of
greener pasture to the world and have built beautiful careers and great media brands. We have abandoned our mother land. It is time we give back to our
people what we have been given out all these years, priding more than ten years
of media liberalization in Cameroon. Bamenda has its media history split into
epochs. The various eras of pre-liberalization, immediate liberalization, modern
post epoch with digital equipment, represent different growth points. However,
not much of that growth has been felt with our media back at home.
I
would like to take commitment to myself, to pay attention on how we could
modernize our local media, emit and produce programs from our very rich and
diverse culture and sell to other media around the world.
The
North West Region has many talents of all walks of life who are scattered in
every part of the world in search of greener pasture and it has been too green
for them to come back and invest home. Project New Bamenda is a way to
bring back these talents.
One
Last One
My
favourite dish from the North West Region is “Nang tari”,
My favourite place is
my area of origin most, the hold of Moghamo and my best proverb is “a kuru
mbunga kuru tug”.
The
meaning of Alenne is Mark, therefore Alenne Menget means Menget’s Mark.
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