What to read after MVET, THE FIRST TROVER?

A troubadour is the bearer of a message from the supernatural world to the material world, from the spiritual world to the physical world, a messenger, so to speak.

A troubadour is not a shaman, nor a medicine man nor a witch doctor, he is simply someone who tells stories that cross the boundaries of the parallelism of reality and contain messages that allow the listeners to have a better understanding of reality and even of events in their own past history and future to come.

The Mvet or Mvet Oyeng (Mvet chant) is the greatest treasure of the Fang culture and the socio-cultural soul of this set of peoples who ruled in central and equatorial Africa from the remotest antiquity.

The Mvet is an epic or mythological, magical or fantastic tale (Nlang or -Mvet).

From the most remote times of the world we do not know, that old world without telephones or computers, that world without televisions or an excess of information; from the most ancient of human cultures, the Troubadour is an essential figure to understand the anthropological and socio-cultural development of the East and West.

In the European Middle Ages, for example, the troubadours are the main precursors of what today is understood as entertainment, poetry, theater and arts.

The troubadour lyric was the music of the Middle Ages that emerged from the eleventh century in southern Europe, mainly in France and is the evolution of the anthropologically and culturally more primitive lyrical and poetic arts for storytelling.

This primitive lyric has been maintained in the most primitive and native cultures of the peoples of the world, such as the Ekang-Fang Bantu culture of Africa, with the Mvet.

As our African traditions and culture say, we are all one people, which has developed and spread all over the world and in different ways and levels of socio-cultural development.

The socio-cultural development is the best unit of measurement of the evolutionary level of a society.

It is not true, therefore, to say that African cultures are at a level of socio-cultural underdevelopment when we look only at the effects of many bad decisions that have been taken on Africa and against Africans.

That is why the figure of the troubadour (Mbom-Mvet) and his musical instrument (Oyeng-Mvet) are one of the greatest legacies of African culture.

The evolution of musical instruments, mainly stringed instruments are a reflection of the evolution and cultural development of the different human civilizations since the most distant times of human chronology.

In Asia and mainly in China, since the ancestral and immemorial times there are variety of stringed instruments such as the Banhu or Banghu (板胡), the Huqin (胡琴), the jinghu (京胡) and a long list of stringed instruments that have been developed throughout its more than four thousand years of socio-cultural history.

The development of stringed musical instruments in China, some very simple and basic like and others well complex, which show us the complexity of cultural art in China and its evolution during that long period, and the role of musical arts and certain instruments in the construction of their civilization as we know it today.

By common sense, the simpler and more basic an instrument of this genre is, the easier it is to determine its antiquity in comparison with others of the same genre but more modern not only because of the materials and the culture in which it was made.

The Mvet of the Ekang-Fang or Pamues of Africa is composed of three gourds, a bamboo rod, four strings divided in the middle of the bamboo by a bridge.

What we must also say is that the older a human civilization or society that develops musical instruments to tell its stories and legends, and for the maintenance of the socio-cultural knowledge of the group, the more primitive it is, the older it is, and that is why the Bantu culture and civilization does not have to boast of being older than anyone else, because we know that we are, because that is what our origins say, as well as science, genetics, universal anthropology and common sense.

And the same ones that less than a hundred years ago treated us like animals just to gain access to the rich resources of our continents with actions as malicious in the long run as their world wars and colonization, which is nothing more than a well camouflaged invasion.

The same ones who now and during the last millennium have boasted of ''having discovered the world and new worlds'', and ignoring that none of those ''worlds'' was uninhabited, for them is also this book, because knowledge never hurts, for to learn is for the wise.

All the places that Europeans presumed to ''discover'' during the last millennium were already inhabited by thinking, intelligent human beings, living in harmony with nature, with the universe and with their own society as individuals and collectively.

They were the children of the first civilizations of human beings, with a genetic and cultural heritage and information that even Western science is just beginning to understand, while it wants to continue forcing the whole world to accept a socio-cultural model of consumerism and artificial life and destruction of the planet as ''the ideal world'' or the ''best model of civilization'' that humanity has been able to develop.

The First Troubadour, that is to say, the first society that developed the stringed musical instrument to narrate, preserve and transmit in the form of songs, poems, stories and for religious or spiritual practices is undoubtedly the African society, because truth is simply common sense.

Life, that life which today is already so difficult for the modern westernized individual to understand, did not present any existential dilemma for African societies such as the Fang before the European invasions, because society naturally instructed individuals to acquire and manifest the most optimal physical and psychological state and all individuals men and women played their role in society, so that all individuals in society women and men were warriors, not to make war, but to live in peace.

This series of books, The First Troubadour, is a general introduction of the Fang culture from different points of view all coming to the same conclusion: colonization and racism, ignorance and evil have done a lot of damage to primitive cultures all over the world but it is not damage that cannot be repaired.

We must only remember one thing, '' we are from where we come from, we are not from where we are, for a tree cannot be separated from its roots, for if it does, it dies. ''

The origin of the people that today is called African or black African has its beginnings in what today is the Asian continent, Australia and Oceania, from people who migrated in very remote times crossing the Red Sea when the continents of Asia and Africa were still united, and the Suez Canal, to enter what is now the African continent.

Genus, guinus, guineo, guinea or genius are all words that come from the same Latin etymological root ginus or genus, or genus, in the case of things of the same genus, that is to say, homogeneous.

The human genus, as a species, has evolved from a common trunk, from a common state of social and mental development that differentiates us from other species with a different level and degree of intelligence.

That common genus is, in African historiography, the group known as the children of AFRICARA.

Thank you for reading these lines.

Javier Clemente Engonga Avomo,

Ancestor in Life

Malabo 18.06.2021