Internet marriage agency booms at New Bell
Disgruntled married women and university graduates constitute its clientele.
The marriage of 22-year-old Abiba, who has spent weary years searching for a dream husband, was certified last weekend at the New Bell neighbourhood in Douala. The youngster is married to 79-year-old Christian, a truck driver who lives and works in Bordeaux. Abiba and her two childen plan to join their internet-connected husband and foster father in France next month.
Christian and Abiba are just one out of a dozen couples that Dolly matches via the internet-dating- service every month. Dolly’s “intercontinental marriage consultancy” discreetly situated at the New Bell main roundabout, is busier than a liberal paymaster’s lodge. As from 3 p.m, every day, scores of anxious ladies, including disgruntled married women, university graduates, secondary school students and city loafers, who lustfully lift their wavering breasts with synthetic strings right beneath their chins, throng Dolly’s corridors, carrying their most enthralling photos which they upload on the date website.
At Dolly’s doorsteps, the eager customers are required to pay a non-refundable consultancy fee of FCFA 25,000 before proceeding to the expert’s cosy office where they receive comprehensive counselling. Dolly starts off by schooling her clients on crucial techniques necessary to win a dream husband. Her lectures focus on profile writing, caressing picture postures, agreeable terminology which better describes the client’s social past and present, educational level (including blatant lies), cooking skills, parents and siblings, likes and dislikes. Thereafter, Dolly and partners, based in Paris, provide intensive guidance and advocacy for two weeks, time the FCFA 25,000 deposit expires.
Life at the “intercontinental marriage consultancy” is an accurate mirror of contemporary world; a theatre of joy and sorrow; a landscape of pain and pleasure. At one end of Dolly’s long corridor, a clumsy stunted woman leaps and darts from end to end. She hugs the air and chants and waves her floppy muscles for heaven’s sake. Then, her telephone rings. She jilters and dives towards a quiet corner. She twists her nostrils and concocts an assent which is neither Britannic nor Caucasian. A soul healing communication begins. The woman speaks with a sugar-coated tongue. It’s her day. She has found a white man, a dream partner. At the other end, a slim lanky lady, seemingly starved for weeks, tears her tainted hairs with sorrow. The guy with whom she had charted for years is a liar. He is married, and cannot come to Cameroon. Exasperating revelations! The hard-earned FCFA 25,000 not refundable. Tears stream down her cheeks; she secretly dries them with a piece of lotus and walks off the corridor. And, the drama continues.
Onlookers have however raised several questions about Dolly and her customers. Do these couples really live happily ever after, or are they likely to meet with divorce lawyers? Do love stories created from online matches always have fairy tale ending? Aren’t women afraid to enhance their personal lives with digital technology?
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Love? 79 year old man?22 year old girl? It shows we are bringing up a generation of prostitutes! We have run out of stuff to sell and now we are selling our daughters! Spare a thought for her children. They are the ones I really feel sorry for,disjointed, living in a strange environment in which their mother was obviously swapped for an IPOD.
What do you expect from our desperado sisters? Let them help themselves, aren’t even boys here in Europe and elsewhere selling their behind for crunches? Feed us with real news from pays please.
True, True! We dont have the luxury for love stories. The country is falling apart… As for love,call me synical,but nowadays..”Love is a concept designed by women to baffle the mind, while some painted banshee, picks your pocket!”
Mr Berliner or what ever you call your self, you are going out of topic. This articles has nothing to do with gay people, so please read again before posting. This article is about an aged man and a young girl. If you do not have any thing to say then shut up your “trap”. Who knows, may be you are one of those selling your behind for crunches. And please do not claim that you mentioned the gay people just as an example.
Why are you too hasty my friend? U think those who sell their behind, sell it to young men? I know where you are trying land, but I won’t fall into your trap. I am not homophobic sir, I hate no human being. Watch out..
I am strongly homophobic.I HATE anything gay!!!!!!!! YES, I’m out of topic too!!
LMAO
Who is correct? There was no comment on gays specifically. Read it again. You seem too sensitive on this point.Might I remind you that Sodemy is unafrican, and if you are trying to stir up trouble by attacking a valid coment to promote your Gay agenda,have the courtessy of Identifying yourself so you familly can see you for the pervert you are!
Correct from Maryland sounded queer, loud and clear.
Please explain your self, which relationship does marriage has with people selling their behind? Please answer that question. I just commented on Berliner and I am not labeling any body as being gay. Also for your information I am a Cameroonian from Bamenda to be precise.
Why feel so insulted by my statement? Read the 1st post coupled with the parallel I made, it might help you correct yourself before throwing cheap jabs.
hahahaaha boys this forum is wonderful. Sometimes out of context, sometimes difficult to understand and sometimes below reasoning. I know we are different people and our brains assimilate and process information differently. Some of our comments are actually awful.
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsssssssssssssss
My country people una wait small , the whole topic has been altered by Mr Berliner , lets get back on the issue , I think the 22yr old on arriving France will be quite excited and after a few months she will start to see her misconceptions about the whole show. For the 79yrs old i think he is a pedophile , but the counseling in Douala is just making money and there is no human feelings , this is exactly the same kind of situation that happen about a month ago in Douala , where the man passed out from afofo ( odontol) and the girl desparu…. and with valuables .
Mr. Bobe and your “correct” friend from fairy land, you can churn/truncate the simple comparison I made in relation to the 1st commentator the way it pleases you. Leave our poor sisters alone, they too need the same right you are pretending to protect in disguise. They can act with their bodies as it pleases them.
Can I just add that it was not the Berliner..Correct got the whole thing wrong!
Poverty has led to an increase in the supply of sex in Kamerun,which has also led to an increase in the demand for money,So it has also led to no love, and people are free to do what ever they want to survive,marying 79yrs oldman is a life she has choosen, being a prostitute is still a way of living, selling ass for crunches is still a way of living.Stop querreling here and fight against poverty alleviation in Kamerun.
Thank you Fredo, I keep my mouth shout. Country people, please forget me and discuss the issues at stake.
Mr Berliner , i can see you are very angry inside so much so that you refuse to understand and stick to your colourblindnes, This 22yr old will not live with the 79yr old for more than 6months without starting see things in different dimensions , i mean not as she expected, This is because the 79yr old is not telling her the realities or Western world, all he wants is her and he will do everything to get her , All the girl want is Europe but she dont know what she will soon know , so i am not obscuring any of her opportuinities of course i cant . be honest and share with me this true maxim that the 22yr old and sexy check will find love not in this man ,This man is a pedophile in the sense that he has not got to know the girl and the relatives and the traditions and culture of the girl, and all the girl…..before all is caput we will not talking abot it again , aurovoir Monsieur
Bobe, good one! I did not even know he was drinking Kembe Federal. In that case, that 419 was on the right track..There I was, feeling sorry for the man. feeling that shame had been grought on to our head!.. I thought he had been drugged!
whether u re nyoy or berliner,u re both outf of topic,for the old fox from bordeaux is just miss using our cameroonian sisters
So, you are shrewder than our sisters?
Graffiman do u know what that girl have gone through to accept an oldman ?
Hello Mr Bobe, thank you very much for pointing out Mr Berliner’s mistake. He does not want to admit he went out of topic. What is the topic? It is simple and clear ( An old man getting married to a young girl). Please if any body can review Mr Berliner’s first comment, then they would see my point. The young girl is just trying to cross to the other side of the sea. In Mr Berliner’s comment he said ” Let them help themselves, aren’t even boys here in Europe and elsewhere selling their behind for crunches?”. Please all my educated bros and sis, can some body tell how this article is related to the above quotation made by Mr Berliner?. Thanks
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Nyoykongadzem you are also one block head like Berliner, Berliner’s comment is irrelevant and you go ahead to support him, it is not a surprise to me because you all are blind.
I agree and disagree with Berliner, first he was not off topic because he just quoted an example that if people can sell their behind, then it is worst than a 22yr woman marrying a 72 old man. For this I agree. What I don’t agree with him is to encourage our sister to endulge themselves in this slavery. To the best of my knowledge some of these things end up well but most end up in the worst case schenario so it is up to the person endulging to such activities to use their brains as we cannot stop people. It is for the disporal to tell our sisters back home the truth for them to know and be careful before getting into such activities. It is difficult to stop them. It is just like telling someone that if they have sex they will die.
Mr. Correct, paysans are miles away from being phonies. The bifurcation of my statement you have been nurturing and hoping for has been averted. You can rally those who are like you and start a new debate; there is another debate elsewhere on this forum where you could as well lambaste those who are against your rights.
F@@k Correct from Md….dump face…if u ain’t got no liason between ur brain & ur eyes, don’t use the pc or even the net…..WTF is wrong with making an example…..come on …..read twice SUCKER
back to the topic here, the girl is trying her best, but the we all know there is a near negative outcome for an age like that..79years, wow
I didnt know there was such an interesting site as this, you guys made my day with your in and out of topic discussions… gimme more
Graffi man,are u from B’da or u are just using that name as a window blind to have a go at bamenda grasslanders???
Mark from China, you can say what ever you want to say but the truth about my point is clear. Every body is entitled to his or her opinion. You have to respect your self or else I will put you where you belong. What are you even doing in China? There are Chinese people parading the streets of Akwa, New Bell, Wrong point and you name the rest. Some Chinese people even self “puff puff” and other items in Douala. Look I advice you to either come back home or go some where else in Europe. Idiot.
sucker…..
whatchu doing there dude?
a freak like u who’s got no sense of direction??huh!
do u know what americans are doing in china and in cameroon?sucker if u ain’t got anything positive to say here, than to keep complaining about ur freedom of speech on this forum….i suggest u hand the notebook u are using back to its rightfull owner, and tcerroc would be a better name for u than correct,,,coz u are opposite and off
sucker
Correct, I don’t think your presence in Maryland makes you better than my friend from China. You are birds of the same feather, beggars in a foreign land. In fact, your presence in the U.S can be likened to the sister who just got married to grandpa in order to get passage into France.
For you, maybe it was your education but at the end of the day, you left everything that mattered to settle in a land that is foreign to you. You now belong to the lowest class of Americans – “Alien” – yet you seek to point out your superiority to others who did same. I am sorry bro, you are a sell-out like the rest of us who find ourselves abroad. There’s really no place like home and any decision that takes you away, can best be described as desperate.
Ama what do you say? Gimme more!!!! Look you better start looking for a way to help your self from that country ok. Give you more of what? Tell your president to give you more.
Correct, wether I am a block head or not, The conversation was about likening this dating/Mariage thing to prostitution. The Berliner mentioned made prostitutionand you came in with your Gay rubbish.Calling people blockheads and homophobics when it is not called for is Idiocy! Shut up untill you have somthing worth saying!
Correct, wether I am a block head or not, The conversation was about likening this dating/Mariage thing to prostitution. The Berliner mentioned male prostitutionand you came in with your Gay rubbish.Calling people blockheads and homophobics when it is not called for is Idiocy! Shut up untill you have somthing worth saying
You this idiot, wrong i mean correct from maryland or what ever you call your self,what do u mean by chinese selling bla bla bla where?u are hiding in a immigration camp waiting for asylum to start cleaning streets and washing dead bodies for penny,yet u have the liver to come out and try to ask some one what he is doing in china?it’s cuz of china that u may still walking the streets of maryland and have food to put on ur table if at all u do eat everyday and here u are saying rubbish about hard working chinese folks back home.Go ask the american gov’t how much china has got in it’s treasury which help directly or indirectly in sustaining ur miserable life in what ever cage u are hiding in around meryland.Go back to school and learn to attack people’s ideology and not thier where about.Let me just hear u say an iota on this and i will let u go back into the cage weh u belong,zoombie!!!
You this idiot, wrong i mean correct from maryland or what ever you call your self,what do u mean by chinese selling bla bla bla where?u are hiding in a immigration camp waiting for asylum to start cleaning streets and washing dead bodies for penny,yet u have the liver to come out and try to ask some one what he is doing in china?it’s cuz of china that u may still be walking the streets of maryland and have food to put on ur table if at all u do eat everyday and here u are saying rubbish about hard working chinese folks back home.Go ask the american gov’t how much china has got in it’s treasury which helps directly or indirectly in sustaining ur miserable life in what ever cage u are hiding in around maryland.Go back to school and learn to attack people’s ideology and not thier where about.Let me just hear u say an iota on this and i will let u go back into the cage weh u belong,zoombie!!!
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Nyoykongagzem or what ever you call your self, you should be the one to shup up and read. Mr Berliner is the one who talked about gay but indirectly. If you donot understand understanding and response then I suggest you go back to kinder garden.
now aren’t we up to an English course! lmao
HAHAHAHAHAHAH Young JuJu or What ever you call your self. I donot have much time to waste exchanging words with you but the truth of the matter is clear. There is problem in China, until you accept it you cannot help your self. Please go some where or come back home because if you die there no body will see you corpse.
Mr JuJu from China
You donot help somebody went you have a problem. You have to first help your self. You are talking about China pumping money into the American Gov’t coffers. Please I am warning you its better you go some where else before you die from led poisoning.
To Mr Guru
You just do not want to admit China has a problem. Please just as my brother Correct said “you should go some where else before you die from led poisoning”.
Prodical son,who said China doesen’t have problems,are you reading English and understading in your native language like ur foolish friend currupt?The world is suffering from enviromental problems today partly and greatly caused by so much industralisation in the US and China and here you are,u uneducated foolish people picking crumbs on the streets of MARYLAND focusing on led poisoning as if there are no companies production errors in the states.Even if there are,most of u guys are leaving on food stamps now cuz most of the companies and factories u used to depend on as cleaners for daily bread are in china,why? cuz of better biz enviroment they gov’t offers here.Bring it on and keep the debate educative rather than writing short senteces.Before i conclude,if i die in china i will be honourably sent back too my resting place by what i left behind over hard work not through some associations coming together to see if they can help evacuate me back home.Go back to ur zoombie cages Mr prodical son and wrong man.
May God be with you all, direct your thoughts and show you the path of righteousness, May He brings joy where there is saddness, peace where there is war, understanding where there is misunderstanding, love where there is hate, justice where there is injustice. Brothers and sisters, we are all children of God, we shouldn`t use forum to attack or criticize but to encourage and look for solution. We should think collectively and creatively inorder to build a better tomorrow for our childrens childrens. All i read from this forum really touches my heart and i felt God is telling us something, something that is beyond our understanding….’ Anybody who has no sin should throw stone on this prostitute…..” Jesus asked the crowd and every body left the place, later Jesus said to the Prostitute go and sin no more. we should start thinking in such way; first defend the weak in our cummunity, then advice follows. Please brethrens in CHrist and fellow country men (whether muslim, hinduh, traditionlist), we were all created by God and we all have an account for ourselves and those who intrust their life to us. Please let us have a moment of Prayers before we contineous with our writings
L: May the Lord be with you all
All: and also with you
L:let us give thanks to God
All: it is right for us to give God our Thanks and praise
L: yes, it is right indeed to give God our thanks and praise for His wonderful creatures and beautiful enviroment we live in. Let us remember the volnerable in our community, the sick and the needy, may God provide their need and helps them know that he loves them no matter how sinful they may be. Thanks you all and God bless you.
AMENNN
Good write up from Massa Roo,never intended to get this low with fellow brothers,just wanted to get some sence into the coconut head of some folks out there who have nothing to offer to the great course of we are all fighting to make our beloved nation Cameroon a better place for all.I’m out.
Mr. Correct, just give up and accept your wrong paraphrasing/digression, it’s ok. We’re all bros. I forgive you for that bro. There are other debates on this forum, you can start one of them and let’s beat our brains rather than our bodies.
no comments…
To Mr Berliner
Ok bros lets make peace. You know people disagree to agree.
Thank you Mr.Correct..there are a lot of other debates coming..don’t worry..
Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.
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Isn’t he supposed to be in an old people’s home waiting to die? Driving a truck and marrying a 22 year old at 79, this man must feel like 18. And this girl, what is she doing with two kids already? Isn’t she supposed to be building a future to care for the kids that would have come later in life rather than accepting the hand of her great great grand father in marriage?
Two desperate people going in opposite directions. Hope she fullfils are desires for a better life and hope he dies happy with a family to bury him!
please lets think wisely and leave jokes aside, what do you guys expect from a girl in her situation?
its better she sacrifices her life and build a better future for her kids. who of you guys will get marry to a girl with 2kids specially you these bushfallers? let her do on with her choice of life. am a girl i know better what this girl could have gone through before making such a decision. that old man is her messiah her ,God send. so lets stop going out of topic here and insulting each other. think and place yourself in ones shoes before you write.With the poverty situation in kamerun at hand.
As you make your bed so shall you lie on it. No one says she’s wrong, but the motives are clearly wrong from either direction.
Messiah! Are you out of you mind? No wonder almost all the black girls i see here in Sweden are like toilets, dishing it to all the Arabs, and to the most old, dirty and rejected men of this society who experiment sexually on their bodies like they would never let homeboy try. If these octagenerians are your Messiahs, then why are you girls always feeling ashamed, and pretend as though you’re not together when walking on the streets. The man might not live much longer, and then what happens to the children? I understand though, if her mission is to get to Europe thinking that all her troubles will be solved. Well i wish her well, and i hope she finally sees her Heaven with the truck driver.
My problem is really with all these African girls who hang around these dishevelled and rotten white folk, as if they don’t see all the younger and refine dudes. You sleep with everything, even their dogs, and you go around wearing diapers all day long ! If and only if your families knew about the sort of torment that some of you go through in the name of survival.
Mitchou, a girl with two kids is still a fine woman if she grooms herself well, and has good manners. Ideally, i would take all these young black girls in my home including you Mitchou, but it seems as though you all strangely prefer these very old and slizzy white men, hoping that they’ll die soon and award you whatever meager property they might own. But unfortunately, the old white people only use Africans for sexual experimentation, and most of those girls end up hanging out on the streets as disillusioned prostitutes. Go see them in Denmark where prostitution is legal.
Your message to young girls back home is just sad. You are a bad seed.
TITI,what you say about AFRICAN BABES out there also hold to your EUROPEAN ladies.do you know how many swedish,russian ,ukrainian etc ladies who give themselves to warn-out-men of fashion just bcos some enjoy the way africans make love and some want the african genes? young european ladies also do those things…………the quest for money is every where…ok.
no body is saying no to her but as my friend from england said the way u make your bed that is how u will lie on it
my dear brothers and sisters it is a shameful thing to talk about why do i say so is because people of today in our society do not want to work hard all what they want is easy going .that is why many young boys and girls find themselves doing unwanted things.i just pray god for our generation
AMEN Monjoh, i strongly join you and massa roo.i will petition continuosly for cameroun in particular and Africa as a whole.
God be with us all………..
cheerssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
i sincerely thank massa roo from Hongkong for bringing peace into this debate!
Hey Correct from Maryland, do you have the courage to state your status in Maryland? U want to know what people are doing in China, so why don`t you go first. You should note that Chinese in Cameroon may be selling puff puff, but they are not destined to remain in that line of minor business. They have culture of starting something from zero, and so if you want to know about it, most of the millionaire Chinese have a story to tell from scratch. That`s why they are driven by the mere possibility to sell puff puff in Cameroon or repair phones. Now you are the pig, for thinking it is wrong to engage in such an activity in Cameroon. And as empty as you have shown from your writing, there are brothers here into scholarships from Chinese govt, among other genuine activities like teaching and business that are keeping them and their families going. You need to know whatz happening around the world, China`s economy is attractive to both organizations and individual. Some American,or Canadians earn more money here than back there, and you want to question why they are here in China? I am sure your answer is yes because you are a cheap ass crap weasel. When you learn to spell and write well more people will have your time. And find time to read news and go to school. This forum is not about what people are doing where they are. An is issue of great concern and interest has been raised, that`s the point of focus.
WELL…..WE ARE ALL FIGHTING TO HAVE PARTNERS.WHETHER THROUGH THE NET OR MEETING FACE TO FACE,NO PROBLEM.ALL I CAN SAY IS WISHING THE COUPLES A HAPPY STAY IN THEIR MARRIAGE.AFTERALL,REBECCA ACCEPTED MARRYING ISAAC WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING ISAAC NOT TO TALK OF SEEING ISAAC’S PHOTO.LADY, I WISH YOU THE BEST.FROM MBONGO-CHOBI TO HAMBURGER IS NOT GREAT…….? AGE DOESN’T MATTER SO MUCH IN MARRIAGE.ALL WE NEED IN MARRIAGE IS A HAPPY STAY..
Rexxxy,leave that young man picking crumbs on the streets of Maryland alone,he’s a low lifer not worth engaging with on cyber space.There is nothing u can learn from the disfunctional Moron.
Correct, I just went through ur comments n u really sound pathetic. If Chinese people people are selling puff puff it doesnt mean that we shouldnt be in China. For ur information, maybe that Chinese who sells puff puff has a heavier bank account than u in Maryland. A shit brick like u cant tell people where n where not to go. You better go do brain test coz u r sick. Honestly, i hardly believe that u will be able to do wat Marc is doing in China. Africans in China are proud of wat they do. Got get some sleep maryland boy. ‘mbutuku’
Most of the blocks I’m reading here have little or nothing to do with this article. I mean, how would some anonymous guy who just happen to click his way to this site view you Cameroonians of the diaspora? Have you guys lost your senses of direction? Do you know guys really know what is meant by “responding to an article?”
This kinda junk behavior is beginning to piss me off. This is a forum for mature individuals with senses of humor, Not an arena for exchanges of stupid rage. Before placing your crooked fingers on the keyboard to type any piece of junk, make sure it reflects the article you are responding to; and pay little attention to other critics. If you must respond to another participant, keep it positive and save the negation to your humble self. you may slap yourself for all I care, but stay away from spitting attacking comments.
Merci Paul Biya pour cette belle intervention. Tu m’as marché sur la langue vraiment, pour dire ce que j’allais dire. Je suis content de voir qu’il y au moins un autre Popo qui pense autrement, comme un intellectuel,lol.
In fact, many have claimed to have understood the article but almost all, if not all of those spitting out nonsense from their mouth were out of topic. The article’s centered on “internet marriage” and not on pedophilia neither on gay men or what ever. So in terms of reading comprehension, OT=0/10 Those of you who support this practice I salute your courage and begged on you not to inculcate such ideas in the mind of your younger srs and brs. Many of these girls leave their country and become slaves out side. Locked up in rooms to satisfy the sexual desires of their so called “husbands” and his friends, in some cases. If you’ve been a victim to it, please, don’t let the younger ones fall into the same trap. If you’ve never experienced it, know that it’s as deadly as death itself. There’re many out there who’re just looking for a means to escape and gain back their homeland to no avail. So internet marriage to me is out of question. It’s mainly a view point. Merci à tous et excusez mes erreurs en anglais.
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