Lapiro Forever Even before his final sleep, he had been the main subject of discussion in dozens of major international fora. The video link below, however you rate it, is a succinct presentation by Mr. Ferdinand Mbecha at the Nordic African Institute in Sweden back in 2009. I want to thank Mr. Mbecha for his great work, done at a time when many were still treating Lapiro as a traitor of sort due to the machinations of both the regime in place and the self-serving powerful arm of the so-called opposition party leadership. I will definitely get back to that as one of the very few people who had the time to discuss the real sequence of events that led to the debacle. Lapiro and I discussed face-to-face in Mbanga, in Kumba, in Paris and in Douala and finally in my home in DC area. We also had hundreds of phone calls all through the years. We have two or more video footages together that I am unable to watch at this time; not even our recent photos together. All this in our little privacy unknown to the outer world who simply knew us as artists but never knew that Lapiro and I had been very close from our very young teenage years at a time when I was not even thinking of ever doing professional music. We fondly called ourselves Pa-pa. All along his career, from the time when he was a very young teenager playing the bass guitar in the once famous club known as Soul Jungle located at Half Mile, Victoria (Limbe) in 1973/74 to the 16th day in March, 2014 that he went to sleep, Lapiro was simply setting the stage for his lasting legacy - a legacy that has come to be and will always be. Lapiro Forever on a rock solid bottom foundation. As I said, as I am saying and as I will always say, Lapiro is greater in his final sleep than when he was physically active amongst us. That is what I mean. That is what I mean, brother. That is what I mean, sister. That is what I mean. I do not know whether I can take some more. I am really trying to call this a bad dream. Oh no o o o o o o o o o . Lets get back to the presentation by Mr. Ferdinand Mbecha whom I owe a lot for this wonderful piece. To watch, click on the Lapiros image below. Lapiro Forever. Yeah!! https://youtube/watch?v=bfWAS3-cm9s&feature=em-share_video_in_list_user&list=UUynM8_o321Hajf5wFcpg2VA
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:22:15 +0000
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