HAWKING: What Kenyans can do, Cameroonians perfect it

Food vendors display roasted maize to passengers through window of a bus along Kisumu-Nakuru highway during a journey break at Kericho bus stage on April 10,2016 morning. The maize sellers have become innovative on how to carry their ready to eat produce by modifying wires on a long rod to carry more than what normal hand carries. Each one carries up to fifteen pieces with single full maize sold at sh20. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

If you think Kenyans make the best hawkers in the continent, wait until you visit other countries.

Well, the business is not any different from Kenyan towns just that some of the products you expect to purchase from shops or supermarkets are readily available to commuting customers.

For instance, hawking bread, arguably the most loved product in the world, along the highways in Cameroon is not a big deal.

But just like Kenya, herbalists here have also perfected their trade to sell products to travellers.

BUSINESS: Bread hawking normal in Cameroon

If you think Kenyans are the best hawkers in the continent, wait until you visit other countries. The business is not different from Nairobi, Kisumu,

Mombasa or Nakuru it is only that some of the products you expect to get them at the shop or supermarket are brought directly to the commuting customer.

For instance, selling bread, the most loved product in the world, along the highways in Cameroon is not a big deal. But just like Kenya, herbalists here have also perfected their trade to sell products to travelling customers.