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Throughout the land of the Bakuba, village after village jumped with excitement as the girls celebrated their freedom. At one hamlet, twelve miles from King Lukengu's seat, Mbawota, 25, a royal wife since childhood and mother of one of Lukengu's many sons, threw her arms wide in joy and happily declared: "Mputukanga has guns, and the King has only spears." Emboldened by the breakup of the royal harem, the King's Bakuba subjects are holding back taxes and their traditional gifts to the king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The King & 800 Wives | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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