Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung: No Make Erreur

April 6, 2022

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the current director of Savvy Contemporary in Berlin and future director of Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, will present No Make Erreur.

The 1986 pop song “No make erreur,” composed and performed by the Cameroonian musician Lapiro de Mbanga in 1986, was a dance floor sensation, and also offered biting criticism of the capitalist urge to exploit and appropriate. No doubt, the sensibility contributed to the singer’s imprisonment years later. The song, which is six minutes and 34 seconds long, seems today like a true and revealing anthem of the twentieth century, and opens a discussion about where our societies are today in their struggle but also in their joy—a sociopolitical Spannungsfeld, a field of voltage and strain.