This is the king who has 100 wives and 500 children.

“The queens have a great role in the kingdom”, says Prince Nixon, stressing that it is up to these women to form the king in his royal role.

After every successful man should be a very, very successful woman”, says Abumb's third wife, Queen Constante.

Our tradition requires that when you're king, older women should convey tradition to younger women, and also to yourself teach tradition and the king, because the king was prince, not king”

Despite the fact that polygamy is legal in Cameroon, reports show that there are far fewer polygamous marriages on the African continent, reports CNN.

“During the colonization came new values, unlike the traditional values we had, and this is an ongoing conflict between traditional and modern Western values”, acknowledges King Abdumb II, who leads the Bafu for 47 years.

My role is to bring them together, find the way forward so people can enjoy modernisation without destroying their culture. Without culture, you're not human, you're an animal”, he says.

Writing about this, Sonny Methu, CNN's host for ʹInside Africa, said this people are not left in the past but are maintaining peace with the present. King Zofoa doesn't think he's left in the past.

Despite having about 100 wives and more than 500 children after his father's death, he considers himself a very modern king.

To rule a kingdom these days of this era, you must be educated because things are moving too fast. As they say, education is light, ignorance is darkness”, says the King.