Bakary Yerima Bouba Alioum is the lamido (or king) of Maroua in Cameroon's extreme north.
Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren't all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own wives if he wishes.
"The queens have a great role to play in the fondom," notes Prince Nickson, also of Bafut, noting that it is function of these women behind the man to shape him in his kingly role.
"Behind every successful man must be a very successful, staunch woman," says Abumbi's third wife, Queen Constance.
"Our tradition has it that when you are king, the elderly wives remain to hand down the tradition to the younger wives, and also to teach the king the tradition because the king had been a prince, not a king."
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