Cameroon launches virtual gallery, to promote arts and crafts

The Cameroonian government, via the Ministry of SME, Social Economy and Arts and Crafts, officially launched on 20 October 2016, a virtual gallery. The aim of this initiative is to capitalise on the opportunities offered by internet, to promote Cameroonian arts and craft throughout the world.

According to Minister Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa, products to be exhibited in this digital gallery will have to be exhibited beforehand in the arts centres installed in the 10 regions of the country. It will be up to the experts established in said centres to select the deserving products and make them available for possible buyers on the web. To start with, only arts centres in Yaoundé and Limbe will have access to this gallery.

Other structures of the same type will be gradually connected. According to the persons in charge at the Ministry of SME, Social Economy and Arts and Crafts, the virtual gallery will enable artists to live more decently from the fruit of their labour, since products might sell via the gallery at more fetching prices.