2022
It was an exciting Saturday with so much joy and energy from our attendees (From Indonsia, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Cameroon, The Gambia, South Africa, Jordan)
It all started with some good music, no time to waste. As members joined the call, they joined in to some good jams playing from DJ Alpha’s end(@Alffiiy). The meetup was scheduled for 14:00h WAT but we started at started at 14:15h WAT as we gave time for others to join while we listened to the warm-up playlist.
We did a general introduction with everyone telling us their Name, Local guides level,Country and what their Favorite music genre is and whether they were fans of Afro-beats.
Some Highlights were;
-Nick Byroglou mentioned that his very first job was at the biggest record store in Athens Greece "Metropolis". There he was working for two years at the ethnic music department where he got enlightened from great African musicians. Real World Records for example.
-@OSAMA_ mentioned how he knew two African songs which were shared to him by his military friends from Africa when he was still in the military, he told us that he had friends who were from Botswana, Tchad, Ivory Coast.
-Anik Setyawati and @FalguniP told us of their general love for music.
- @Yannick27 & Ngam Audrey mentioned their love for African music, especially cameroonian music as it makes them dance. Makossa, bikutsi, coupe decale being amoung their favourite kinds @Austinelewex loves Burna boy particularly and Nigerian hip-hop music in general.
We moved forward by having an open discussions of the places on Google maps where we go to listen to good music. Night clubs, snack bars and music festivals/ concerts were the most talked about.
Highlight: Yannick told us about his favorite snack which is the famous Las Vegas VIP club in Douala Cameroon. And how Douala is the city of “Njoka” (Njoka means enjoyment in Cameroonian slang) @nkwetchetold us about his list on Google maps of Night life in Douala and we continued sharing about list creation and how it is important that we create more of such list on maps as it would help users who are in search of a place to distress after the entire Pandemic or anytime, we never know.
After all the LG talk on Lists on Maps, we entered an exclusive party that can only be offered by DJ Alpha. He gave us an virtual music tour from Nigerian music, to Cameroon, To Congo, to South Africa. Osama shared the two musics he had with him and we all enjoyed it. @LeyleyS was so happy to listen to Angelique as it reminded her of her childhood.
DJ Alpha took the request of attendees and played upon request.
@Ewaade_3A showed us some dance moves
@doc_dells @SabbirShawon @Zino_ Thank you for coming
Thank you dear all for attending, and reading this post.
Thank you so much DJ Alpha
