CAMEROUNIAN KING WITH 100 WIVES

Abumbi II with wives

This is the African king who has close to 100 wives after inheriting his late father’s queens as his own.
Abumbi II, became the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut in Cameroon after the death of his father in 1968.
Polygamy is still legal in Cameroon and it is tradition in rural areas for men to marry more than one woman, with no limit on how many wives one can take.

But as is custom, when a king dies, his successor inherits all of his wives, meaning Abumbi now has around 100 wives having been passed 72 rom his father.
He has taken on over 500 children from all of his wives.

Queen Constance, Abumbi’s third wife, told ‘Behind every successful man must be a very successful, staunch woman.

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.