When Ngondo turns the government into a proselytizer

The “Ngondo" which would be defined as a traditional festival of the Sawa peoples (Douala, Bassa, Bakoko, Batanga, Yabassi,...) and which is held every December on the banks of the Wouri River in Douala is gaining more and more ground in Cameroon.

Embellished as “ sawa", the ngondo is nothing other than a series of sacrifices and incantations addressed to the ancestors and the spirits of the waters to supposedly bring peace to the Sawa people and to the entire nation. Like any well-crafted proselytizing strategy, the progress of this “party” is peppered with actions such as traditional dances and struggles, canoe races, Miss Ngondo election and many others, all of these actions being only bait for those eager for spectacle. Of this number, the crowd of more than a thousand people at Ngondo 2013 was not just the Sawa, they were invited friends here, curious people there…

The height of this tragedy is that under the pretext of the occupation of their usual site by the cement factory under construction of the wealthy Dangote, the Sawa benefited from the government's flexibility by granting a new 10 hectare site in Bonabéri very close to the Wouri River and the development of what will be called "Maison de la culture sawa” valued at one billion of our francs. The funding being shared between Dangote and the government.

This Sunday 1^st December at the n^th edition, we could see both members of the government (delegate, minister, etc.) and major Cameroonian companies as sponsors, with in addition a full live broadcast on private Cameroonian television Canal 2. All this deployment makes it clear that the die has been cast so that in the years to come, all of Cameroon will only speak the same language on Ngondo; reason to worry.

The Bible does it not say in proverbs 11:11 that:

the city rises by the blessing of the righteous, but is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked ?

thing is that in Ngondo, it is not the Eternal God who is invoked, but the ancestors and the spirits of the waters, and this with the blessing of our authorities. />

Camfaith invites the Christian community to prayer for the following points:

The realization that all our cultures and traditions do not honor the Lord God according to 2 Corinthians 4:4;
• The revelation of Jesus Christ as the only Savior, and Lord to all those who are still held captive in the darkness of ngondo and many other traditions according to Colossians 1:13; rgb(0, 128, 0);">Spectacular conversions of traditional leaders with obvious destruction of talismans according to Acts 19:19;
• May the standard of the Lord be raised over our nation so that the church may fulfill its role according to Ephesians 3:10.