A Cameroonian King, Abumbi II is indeed a real king who has recorded his name in the lips of many after he became the 11th king of the Bafut region in Cameroon after the death of his father in 1968.
The African king who has close to 100 wives after inheriting his late father’s queens as his own has taken on over 500 children from all of his wives.
According to Queen Constance, Abumbi’s third wife, it has always been the tradition of the land that the older wives remain to teach the younger wives and the new king things they did not know.
‘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 he king the tradition because the king had been a prince, not a king,’ she told CNN.
The queens are often well spoken, speaking several languages and are accomplished in education as Polygamy is still legal in Cameroon and it is a tradition in rural areas for men to marry more than one woman, with no limit on how many wives one can take.
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