The loathsome stains are due to the rainy and cold weather. Solution; air or sun objects often.

Since the beginning of ‘daily’ rainfall in Douala, dresses, shoes and household furniture like wooden and leather chairs, cupboards and even some cement floors are in constant danger. Mould; a woolly network of threadlike strands that may be white, green, grey or black in colour grow on objects due to severe cold and change their colours.

It is common for Douala city dwellers to brush and iron mould-attacked dresses every morning before putting them on. Since brushing dresses contributes in reducing the quality, owners who pay attention to what they put on find solace in dry-cleaning companies for thorough washing. When washed in dry-cleaning machines and parcelled in plastics, parasitic fungus like mould hardly grow on them, an employee in a dry-cleaning company disclosed. When dresses are exposed to cold, they are easily attacked by mould. For those who cannot meet dry-cleaning expenses, constant sunning or airing dresses and other objects that might incur the wrath of mould is advisable. Though it rains often, the sun does not necessarily has a very big role to play, but just spreading the dresses and placing furniture in an open space is enough to reverse the trend.

Though preventive measures are free, there is often no time for busy city dwellers in the economic heartbeat, since the cosmopolitan population made up of civil servants, private employees and a bulk of businessmen leave their houses alongside children involved in all sorts of petit trade. Consequently, sunning dresses before leaving for one’s jobsite may just cause another disaster should it rains given that only the very little ones stay at home.

Inhabitants will only continue the “brush and wear” or carry out dry-cleaning while waiting impatiently for dry season to put an end to the handwork of the unbearable parasitic fungus; mould.