YAFE Could Be Moved To Another Location Subsequently

     

                                      Photo credit:AB

The dust is gradually settling on the 9th edition of 'YAFE' or Yaounde en Fete, which ended on Sunday January 04. This however may be the last year it is being held around the May 20 Boulevard area. Organizers have indicated that over 70 entreprises had to be kept on a waiting list list for want of space. The building under construction at the Boulevard is not also making things easy and accounted for the long queues of visitors at the entry points of YAFE.  One of the possible sites where it could be relocated to, is the Yaounde Conference Centre premises, host of another major event, the Business Trade Fair, 'Promote'. Another possible site is the esplanade of the Yaounde Omnisports Stadium.

This year, about 310,000 visitors visited 'YAFE's 170 stands(up from 130 last year), accounting for between 10,000 and 35000 visitors daily.

The event is organized by the "Fondation Interprogress" run by Pierre Zumbach. It is one of the most anticipated events in Yaounde during the end of year festivities.

I'm really unfazed by the change of location. My concern with YAFE is the moral depravity that occurs there. A colleague at work(an elderly man) narrated to us how one night, he went there at about 11pm, and met teenage girls, some in their pre teens even, beckoning on him to come and 'sucer les seins', for a fee of course. And they were drunk, each with a sachet of 'kitoko' in hand. Of course we asked him what he went to do there at that hour. That's a story for another day...lol