Abstract:
After the colonial era in the early sixties, the practice of employing and paying workers
in Cameroon both in the civil service and in the private sector became very crucial,
considering the fact that the situation of unemployment is so endemic to Cameroon
as a paradigm for Africa’s unemployment. From an economic perspective, Cameroon
has a booming labour force, but this robust manpower has been underutilized due to
the provocative unemployment that is experienced in all sectors in the country. As
an agrarian economy, the weakness of industrialisation in Cameroon does not offer
mass employment alternatives. Those who have the privilege to be employed are not
satisfied with their remunerations to the extent that they try to use unorthodox means
to add to their pay through corruption. This article highlights the desperate nature of
Cameroonian workers through the lenses of Matthew 20:1–15. It is a society of unfair
distribution of resources and this creates an imbalanced society between the privileged
and non-privileged peasantry.
