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Article: Wedding joy, African style.(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 7, 2000
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We are driving down a dirt track through wild groves of palm trees and overgrown brush to the village of Kake, one hour north of Douala, the sprawling seaport of Cameroon.
Ahead of us is a four-wheel-drive Renault decorated with pink and white streamers, carrying the Cameroon bride and the French groom. Leading the wedding procession is an open truck, with four drummers beating away and loudspeakers blaring. The drummers wear yellow T-shirts, pepper-red shorts. They sing, shout, dance, nearly spilling over the sides as the truck hits potholes.
Pierre and I are crowded into a chauffeur-driven car with the parents of the bridegroom. Wide-open windows ...