
Few years of economic partnership against decades of economic “aid”
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Participating in Positive ChangeNews of the opening of a Chinese bus factory in Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital, is more a fruit of reciprocal relationship and a big lesson to the hitherto “old-time partners” of Cameroon . It shows that Cameroon and Africa is not only a place for raw material but equally, a place where finished goods can be made, a myth that has been propagated by colonial partners for the past 5 decades.
The plant where busses would be assembled is expected to cost an estimated USD500 million and hundred of jobs would created. Some Cameroonians are supposed to be sent to China for training in the auto industry and upon return, they would begin work in the bus assembly plant. Possibilities of a full time auto manufacturing industry in the years ahead if the venture succeeds are very possible.
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