Word: foumban
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Last January energetic French High Commissioner Roland Pré instituted some reforms of his own. Anxious to cut down the top-heavy local administrative setup in the Cameroons, he began looking for likely natives to serve in local municipal offices. When he canvassed the natives of Foumban on their choice for mayor, the answer was a landslide for Sultan Seydou...
Down among the French Cameroons in equatorial Africa, there lived a Sultan, a chief of the Bamoun tribesmen, who decided to be on the side of progress. The 17th Sultan of Foumban invented an alphabet of his own, taught his subjects the virtues of hard work and discipline and sent his son Seydou N'jimoluh Njoya off to learn French in a Protestant mission school. In time, Seydou himself became Sultan and decided to outdo his father in progress. Though he surrounded himself with the traditional swarms of wives and concubines (59 in all), and wore the heavy cloaks...
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