Parents gear up prep. for academic term

A few days to the reopening of the next school year in Cameroon, the signs are already visible in all towns and villages.

This year, anxious parents wishing for the education of their offspring strive hard to prepare for this last term. It becomes more difficult when the pupil was dismisses from an institution or has failed in the entrance to a high school.

Some street vendors, with wheelbarrow filled to the brim with students luggage seem to be making good business at this time. "Parents often accompanied by their children or not, have the choice but patronise their services as they carry heaps of notebooks, backpacks containing “Eto’o fils ","Zidane" or "Harry Potter".

"I prefer to buy supplies now to avoid the mad rush at the last-minute. Although now, in my opinion it is a little late ", says Ms. Nzoupe Régine, a teacher at Bonaberi.

Parents or pupils concerned closely by school re-entry are seen everywhere. In the streets and sidewalks are somewhat crowded because some sellers have invaded the place.

In a strategic attitude says a seller of second-hand books, "you have to stand at the entrance or just next to a department store where the parents will pass."