It’s a Kylian Mbappe new who returned to Paris this weekend, after a 72-hour visit to Cameroon, his father’s country of origin. The man who has never officially been in contact with his blood brothers, established this contact during this visit which he made in the company of Joakim Noah, the son of Yannick Noah, French tennis champion. If the gala match between the Vent d’Etoudi team whose Yannick Noah is the honorary president and friends and former players of this 2nd division team of the Regional League of the Center to which the world legend of football was to join failed, the popular fervor will have given to this visit of the captain of the national team French football, a positive coloration. By leaving his new country, Kylian Mbappè had the green light from the authorities of Cameroon, to continue his charitable works already committed even before having been officially known and recognized by his brothers. Joseph Dion Ngute, the Prime Minister, encouraged one if not the best footballer in the world to continue his humanitarian mission. He who financed the reconstruction of a school for the deaf and dumb in the country. And a sports complex is announced in the locality of Obala, near Yaoundé.
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Sacred box
But the most important stage, a mythical and perhaps mystical part of the visit, will take place on the island of Djebalere on the Wouri delta. Among his companions, a certain Joseph Antoine Bell, former legend of Cameroonian and French football, once captain of Olympique de Marseille, who has become a traditional chief. About fifty boatmen transported by the Ngondo canoe open the way to the island of Djebale. On the mainland on either side of the Wouri River, Sawa women perform popular songs from the Sawa era. Alongside them, many fans and admirers of the prodigy chant the name of the “brother”. The public school of Djebalè, the village of his father, built, we learn, in 1933, welcomes the prodigal son. Alongside Faïzal Lamari, her mother, the planetary star treads this “blessed” ground on this day. Enthusiasm is at its peak. The people are drunk with joy. Among them, Philippe Mbappe, the grandfather of the illustrious foreigner. “I am proud and very proud. And this abundant and overflowing pride, I would like to share it with you “says the man.
A sacred hut is erected on the spot: “the child of the country” is taken there for a rite. Initiation, they say. Nothing more. About ten minutes, locked in this box, in the company of local notabilities. When Kylian Mbappé comes out, it’s another character that the public discovers. Dressed in a “Sandja”, the traditional Sawa loincloth and a boubou of the same fabric, and a traditional hat on his head, the water child leaves from there. Only insiders know what has become of him. ” Large trees grow slowly or briskly but sink their roots deep into the ground“, leave him alone Pr Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, Minister of Sports and Physical Education (Minsep) and traditional leader of the Sawa cultural era. Still, the Frenchman has forged a relationship with his roots. Captain of the French national football team, Kylian Mbappè has just sealed a pact with his origins. On these lands which saw the settler access the soil of what would later come to Cameroon. Nationality will no longer change on paperwork, but the Cameroonian blood flowing through his veins has found its source. The ground is prepared for a definitive return to the sources one day.
