« BOussoura still cannot remember the precise moment her husband, Seini, the doctor close to his patients, the affectionate father, the loving and complicit husband, transformed himself into an all-powerful king. She doesn’t remember it because it started gently, without making any noise, like a light woman who goes barefoot in the night. It must be said that they were modern, Boussoura and Seini, even that he said to himself “feminist”. They had been married twenty-five years earlier, had four children, lived in Yaoundé and loved each other. “European style”, writes Djaïli Amadou Amal.
And then, as he was the son of a king, which often happened, and the king was dead, Seini had been “recalled”. And he had become “lamido”, that’s to say “commander of the believers, guarantor of traditions and religion” of a small kingdom that is not the nation state. So they had settled in the palace of the other time, Boussoura, alone, Seini surrounded by sex slaves and delicious and ambitious concubines. Of course, he “only loved Boussoura” and he “needed her by his side”, but he couldn’t “to despise” the harem.
A deadly system
It was necessary« honorary ». To prove his virile power. Because the more children are born there, the greater the glory of the lamidat. “Give full power to the most virtuous man there is,” wrote Herodotus, “and you will soon see him change.” Certainly. Seini became very, very lamido – question of devo […] Read more
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