Photographer's Note
he current Bandjoun chef, Honoré Djomo Kamga, was appointed in 2004 on the death of his half-brother (he is a biologist engineer who studied in France). It has an important political role and therefore resides in Bandjoun and Yaoundé (the capital of Cameroon).
He built a modern building where he resides with his close family but his family is also very large because when he acceded to the throne he inherited the property of his predecessors ... whose wives children small children etc...
So he has about sixty wives but I don’t think it’s in the European sense of the word in fact he had either mainly the burden of so many families. These families are housed in traditional huts whose former bamboo roofs were rebuilt in sheet metal after a fire in 2005 and in tiles after a fire in 2015. houses to seen in WS
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emka
(157280) 2020-11-18 23:04
hello Christiane, I have first noticed this nice araucaria tree. Interesting modern building. Interesting village of the wives huts. Sixty wives, so how many children? Strange story.
Best regrads Malgo
jemaflor
(146190) 2020-11-18 23:24
Salut Christine,
Bien présenté ce palais et l'évocation de cette grande famille ... on a beau être ouvert aux cultures différentes, cette polygamie a de quoi nous surprendre ! Toujours des tons chauds pour la présentation de cette atmosphère africaine.
papagolf21
(152605) 2020-11-19 23:41
Bonjour, chère Christine,
La polygamie est autorisée dans ce pays. Cet édifice architectural ne manque pas d'étonner par rapport aux logis habituels !
Bonne note.
Amitiés.
Philippe
Photo Information
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Copyright: Christine COLLOMB (CMJC)
(5085)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2016-02-13
- Exposure: f/0.6, 30 seconds
- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Travelogue: Cameroun
- Date Submitted: 2020-11-18 9:44
Discussions
- To emka: the wives (1)
by CMJC, last updated 2020-11-19 02:46 - To jemaflor: polygamie relative (1)
by CMJC, last updated 2020-11-19 02:57