- Guitars made in Africa 🤯😲
Meet a Cameron youth who has stunned the world with his creativity as he goes on to produce acoustic musical instruments which has been alien to African creativity for a while.
TCHOUFACK CLOVIS
In our edition today we explore the life of a 19 year old Cameronian youth and his creativity.
The most outstanding part of this being that this is coming at a time where most of the youths are highly independent on the government and other means of living, without finding a means to produce or present themselves with sources and their means of self employment that has not to depend on first hand employment from different bosses.
It is right also to understand the requirements for one to start anything new especially when such things are coming at a period that they do not have much sponsorship and not the financial backup.
But notwithstanding this goes on to show that people with lots of determination can attain any height they want to get, if they are actually willing to get there.
Older people who have had the firsthand experience of starting life will understand that entrepreneurship is not just stating that you can just start with motivation without having the necessary resources needed to run it.
You will crash earlier before you fly.
Many people, both young and Middle aged alik, have started something like this even in the 90s throughout the early 2000 and to the present time have started similar ventures, but because of the fact that they do not have the financial assistance and the government has not provided very favorable avenue for them to move ahead, whatever they have started didn't last as much as expected and they came back crashing.
Most of them have gone back home empty handed with lost hope, while others have crossed the shores of Africa to start life afresh where there are better opportunities.
Tchoufack Clovis (29), is one of those youth who have defied the mindset that certain level of creativity are reserved for a particular group of people or those from different geographical locations most especially excluding Africa.
Even though, it is difficult to understand that there are many creative and talented Geniuses at different areas of Africa but their only problem doing that there's not the financial capabilities sponsorship to start anything new.
Now imagine a situation whereby highly creative Africans are given that avenue to start life in its green pasture, and they combine their intelligence, desire to conquer inherited poverty, and knowledge with availability of government assistance to start enterprises,, now people wouldn't have to depend on 9-5 jobs every time to earn a living.
And with that, the level of poverty in Africa shouldn't have been there in the first place.
This is difficult for us to understand because it has not been put to practice, but if our government can ever prioritize the welfare of our people and decide to invest in her youths who are trying to start up life and give them the necessary and the required resources to do it we can create a new Africa.
We have seen many of them go into electronics and electrical parts, vehicles and automobiles, musical equipments, even into robotics and aeronautic industry but the problem has always been the continuity of it.
In the beginning comes the zeal, the second one is the productivity, but outside it we need empowerment from government both from resources and tax exemptions for them to make these things.
Starting it their intention is always to move forward, and become great men of renown just like the Western Hi-Tech industries, but as time goes on and they are not able to obtain those things they run out of resources, and due to the fact that indigenous products are not encouraged in Africa where it comes to patronizing businesses, they end up making products that are not being encouraged or patronized in Africa.
AND nobody who doesn't make sales in any business can continue running it and that is what happens to African entrepreneurs.
Would you like to patronize him if you need this as I've sent many people online stating that he should give a sample play of the guitar which will help to market it more.
What do you think?
Look at the beautiful handworks of the African child.
In his own words 👇
My name is Tchoufack Clovis, and I am a 29-year-old Cameron based in Douala. I did carpentry training, and I am also a great lover of music and its instruments. I decided to link the two things that fascinate me the most: carpentry and music.
It all started when I was 20, my girlfriend broke my guitar and I couldn't afford another one. Having no solution to this problem, I just decided to make another one myself.
I had not been trained to make guitars despite my skill in handling wood. The first attempt ended in failure, but to think I was going to give up was to not know me well. I tried it a second time and I got it. The finish, the curves, the aesthetics, everything was a nickel. The guitar was flawless.
Today it has become my flagship activity. I make them with an irreproachable quality of work that has nothing to envy of guitars that are made elsewhere. It was a challenge that I had to meet to overcome my limits but also to prove how much African youth can do great things when they have the capacity.
I invite you with great humility to support this initiative. The idea for me is to impose Made In Cameroon guitars all over the world. Starting, of course, by fervently conquering the African market.
Believing in your dreams and giving yourself the means to make them come true is my leitmotif.
I intend to offer other instruments to satisfy a wider clientele and thus persist in this dynamic of local consumption with mastered know-how and a strong desire to stimulate change.
I can be reached on Whatsapp: +237 6 73 76 9192
With modern mechanical equipment he hopes to create a name for himself in Africa.
My name is Tchoufack Clovis, and I am a 29-year-old Cameron based in Douala. I did carpentry training, and I am also a great lover of music and its instruments. I decided to link the two things that fascinate me the most: carpentry and music.
It all started when I was 20, my girlfriend broke my guitar and I couldn't afford another one. Having no solution to this problem, I just decided to make another one myself.
I had not been trained to make guitars despite my skill in handling wood. The first attempt ended in failure, but to think I was going to give up was to not know me well. I tried it a second time and I got it. The finish, the curves, the aesthetics, everything was a nickel. The guitar was flawless.
Watch the video here.
Today it has become my flagship activity. I make them with an irreproachable quality of work that has nothing to envy of guitars that are made elsewhere. It was a challenge that I had to meet to overcome my limits but also to prove how much African youth can do great things when they have the capacity.
I invite you with great humility to support this initiative. The idea for me is to impose Made In Cameroon guitars all over the world. Starting, of course, by fervently conquering the African market.
Believing in your dreams and giving yourself the means to make them come true is my leitmotif.
I intend to offer other instruments to satisfy a wider clientele and thus persist in this dynamic of local consumption with mastered know-how and a strong desire to stimulate change.
I can be reached on Whatsapp: +237 6 73 76 9192
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