Naming our daughter among the Ewondo 1700 words/12 minutes Felix with Judith and la belle mere A few weeks after my daughter was born, in the Central hospital in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, Judith and I prepared to register her birth at the town hall. Having a baby in Cameroon is not as simpleContinue reading “Bambela, Etogo, Zali”
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First Knock Door
When Victor found I had an Ewondo girlfriend from the Centre Province, he asked me if I was a serious man.
“If you are a serious man, you need to know how to dote your love,” he said. “I will tell you how to go see her father.”
The Ewondo live in the French speaking Centre province, so I asked, “How do you know about the Ewondo?”
“I had a love from there,” he told me. “You must be ready for what will happen. It is called the First Knock Door. When you go to see the father to ask for his daughter, you will say to the father, ‘You have a nice flower in the family that I love’.”
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