Word: salama
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Buckingham Palace may have lavish plans for Prince Charles' wedding, but it will have to go far to top a style of royal nuptials unusual even for fabled Arabian sheikdoms. For the wedding of his eldest son Mohammed and his bride Princess Salama, Sheik Zayed, the President of the United Arab Emirates, threw a $40 million bash in Abu Dhabi...
Instead of obeying, Yakouba renounced the Church, dressed himself like a native and turned fisherman. Said he to Biographer Seabrook: "I quit the Church because I didn't want to leave Timbuctoo and didn't want to give up women." A strapping Negress, Salama, gave him shelter, persuaded him not to be so melodramatic in his renunciation...
...made him settle down again, accept a civil job as interpreter. Salama got his first week's pay, has managed him and their large family with shrewish boisterousness ever since. As head of the Arabic university, commandant of Goundam, interpreter in many a trial and on expeditions against the Tuaregs, Pere Yakouba added more laurels to his grizzling crown. Now most famed but no longer most respected citizen in Timbuctoo, he himself is not sure he has come the right way after all. Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large...