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Ganzavar – Maray instrumental music

The maray is a Mafa traditional music attached to the festival of the bulls. The Mafa people celebrate this festival every three years (every two years among a branch of Mafa called the Boulahay). The rhythm of the maray is highly festive. For this reason, it is popular during all the dry season months, even outside the consecrated cyclical period.

The occult practices surrounding the feast of the bulls give the Maray a somewhat enigmatic character. In reality, the ancestors of the Mafa conceived this festival as an opportunity to revitalize solidarity, living together, and sharing. That’s where the true meaning of Maray lies. Any other consideration is peripheral. The head of families who kill the bulls ends up with only an insignificant share. He gives away almost all the meat to the community according to well-defined norms.


The songs performed on the occasion of the Maray praise the individual who sacrifices the animal on the altar of generosity, pride and living together after having patiently and discreetly fattened it. They also express joy over the cow.
Some themes related to community life and joy are also frequent in the content of the songs. The dance of Maray is less organized than that of Houdok. Still, the singing style is almost the same with, in the background, improvisation, expressions, and individualized tones, but respectful of the dominant melody and rhythm of the whole group.


Le maray est une musique traditionnelle mafa attachée à la fête des taureaux. Les Mafa célèbrent cette fête tous les trois ans (tous les deux ans chez une branche de Mafa appelée les Boulahay). Le rythme du maray est hautement festif. Pour cette raison, il est populaire pendant tous les mois de la saison sèche, même en dehors de la période cyclique consacrée.

Les pratiques occultes qui entourent la fête des taureaux donnent au Maray un caractère un peu énigmatique. Mais, en réalité, les ancêtres des Mafa ont conçu cette fête comme une occasion de redynamiser la solidarité, le vivre ensemble, et le partage. C’est là où réside la vraie signification du Maray. Toute autre considération est périphérique. D’ailleurs, les chefs de famille qui tuent les taureaux ne se retrouvent qu’avec une part insignifiante de la viande, l’essentiel étant partagé dans la communauté selon des normes bien définies.

Les chants exécutés à l’occasion du Maray vantent le mérite de l’individu qui sacrifie l’animal sur l’autel de la générosité, de la fierté, et du vivre ensemble après l’avoir patiemment et discrètement engraissé. Ils traduisent aussi la joie au sujet du taureau. Quelques thèmes liés à la vie en communauté et à la joie sont aussi fréquents dans le contenu des chants. La danse du Maray est moins organisée que celle du Houdok, mais le style de chant est presque le même avec, en toile de fond, de l’improvisation, des expressions et des tons individualisés, mais respectueux de la mélodie dominante et du rythme de l’ensemble du groupe.

Prof. Moussa Bongoyok

TSAMAHA Bienvenu loue le Seigneur en mafa -TSAMAHA Bienvenu is praising the Lord in Mafa – TSAMAHA Bienvenu a slèberdè Zhiklè a da’i mofa

TSAMAHA Bienvenu

Ndav nga a wuffè te man Zhiklè m’woy nga…m’va nga nshèffè a mèdèp.

Nous nous réjouissons parce que Dieu nous a aimé…Il nous a donné la vie éternelle.

We rejoice because God loved us…He gave us eternal life.

Protocole d’accord entre l’IUDI (Cameroun) et le Journal Chrétien (France)

Quelques expressions en mafa + chiffres en mafa – enseignement dispensé par Michel Goulimé

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Le Maraï ou la Fete du Taureau Chez le Peuple Mafa et le Houdok

WHO WILL LIVE FOR THOSE WHO NO LONGER HAVE HEADS? A shout in the desert of International Community

You didn’t hear… or did you hide willingly under the bed of abstraction?

Maybe you did hear about Boko Haram and other terrorist movements in action…

But, you see, your geography professor told you as did your musician,

With all the calm and seriousness of an academician,

That Kousseri, Maroua, Mora, Tourou, Moskota, Koza, Ouzal, Mozogo,

And other localities or infrahuman countries must go,

Because their humanity index is so low, and,

They are located on an unknown planet, the land of tomorrow.

Why worry about the future

While one calmly drinks today’s culture?

 

Maybe you didn’t see what is happening on social media as your soul became a taro…

Because, above all, you must set your economic priorities right to beat the antihero

And accumulate as much power and things as you can carry in your empty barrow.

Your business professor told you so, with his academic sombrero.

Your financial advisor is such a genius so different from the harrow

That you gather things, things and more things, and the great dinero.

You eat power, power and more power over bones without a marrow.

Aren’t they mere keys to your success today and tomorrow?

Your eyes can’t see while you dream to be the next pharaoh

And, after all, your neighbor is just a dried arrow!

 

Who will cry for those who no longer have heads?

Who will become a shelter for those who no longer have beds?

Who will eat for those who can no longer smell the odor of fresh breads?

Who will bring joyous colors to lives painted in multiple reds?

Who will tell Europe, America, Asia and others, that Boko Haram spreads

Faster and deeper than the swiftest fighters and meds?

Who will act? Who will dig? Who will lovingly address the roots

Instead of relying solely on boots?

 

Oh! I wish you and I were the recovered triumphant shouts of the voiceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the beautiful tears of the tearless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the real wealth of the resourceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the reconstructed ramparts of the powerless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the regained smiles of the hopeless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the lost but found face of the faceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the living image of the divine rock for the baseless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the real value of lives so priceless!

Regardless of our religious backgrounds, we are all humans;

Would you and I actively navigate against the currents and stop treating others as subhumans?

 

Moussa Bongoyok, PhD

Professor of Intercultural Studies and Holistic Development

President of Institut Universitaire de Développement International (IUDI)

GLOIRE A DIEU et PAIX AUX ETRES HUMAINS

Les cris de douleur d’un peuple en détresse suite aux exactions meurtrières de Boko Haram

 

Lamentations d’un jeune Mafa de Moskota condamné à l’exil dans des conditions infrahumaines suite aux exactions meurtrières de la secte islamiste Boko Haram contre les populations du Mayo Tsanaga dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun.
Lamentations of a young Mafa from Moskota condemned to live in exile, and in infrahuman conditions, following the murderous killings of the Islamist sect Boko Haram against the populations of Mayo Tsanaga in the Far North of Cameroon.

Boko Haram and Trauma – Boko Haram et Traumatisme

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