Jean Christian Akam, a journalist specializing in economics, says:
“Of course, we notice that most of these imported products are Chinese. So it’s like Cameroon is becoming day by day a hundred percent market for Chinese products. Everybody can see that in the market, we have mostly products that are imported. Perhaps it’s because we don’t have [a manufacturing sector] that can compete with imports.”
But not all sectors are suffering from an anemic buying season.
Cameroon’s public transport sector is ready to welcome thousands criss-crossing the country for family reunions, weddings and funerals.
Breweries are preparing to receive revelers on drinking sprees at beer parlors, nightclubs and other entertainment venues. And hospitals and clinics are preparing to receive indulgent drinkers and eaters, and as well as victims of road accidents and robberies.
The religious community is reacting to what it sees as the corruption of the holiday.
Rev. Philemon Nfor of the Cameroon Baptist Convention points the finger at those he says are behind the holiday’s creeping consumerism – pagans:
The commercial aspect is so [strong] that there are people who actually get indebted because they are trying to celebrate Christmas. It must be because the world has entered a lot into the church, and also capitalism.
Nfor says pagans are joining the church and bringing their materialistic influences with them. He says the only answer to that is better preaching. He thinks Cameroonians should focus on the spiritual renewal that he says the birth of Jesus implies.
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