Today is national youth day here in Cameroon. The whole wek has been a giant rehearsal towards this day. The festivities took the form of a massive march in front of Bongo Square with all the schools of Buea in attendance. They even closed off the road.
The streets were lined with awaiting proud parents, well wishers, men blowing trumpets in a loosely musical sense, men selling hankerchiefs and little girls flooging pineapples that are perched on their heads. It seemed like 100 schools passed before we seen the familar yellow and purple paradading by, arms swinging comicly high in formation with eyes pointed to the sky, as a woman on a stupidly loud sound system announced the schools fledgeling beginings.
It was quite sweet to see so many kids in their brightly colured uniforms of pink to purple, mint to mauve.
There is an estimated 15,293,000 people in Cameroon, of that massive number 15% are aged between 0-10. This prossession made me realise just how many kids there are, even in a relatively small city like Buea. Those humungous numbers don't seem so unrealistic.
I suppose thet deserve a holiday.
Bad luck to Cameroon who were defeated 1-0 last night in a hard fought match, one mistake seperated them and it was by their most experienced player, R Song.
Oh well maybe next time, or some other time in the future, there certainly is enough kids and they all love football.
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Yo Yo. Just thought I'd leave a small remark to let you know that people are reading. Gutted about African Nations. We were rooting for them back here.
Sobering thought about the high population of kids, a product of such a low life expectancy?
I read a comment in the Evening News today from some middle age woman. She was complaining that when a water main burst in the morning and scottish water didn't get it back on until 12.45pm that they didn't even provide any bottled water! I assume the good ladies of morningside's elenveses was severely disrupted. Some people don't think how lucky they are sometimes.
Does the internet cafe have it's computers back yet? That shit is pretty fucked up.
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toodle.
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