The sultan's burden [electronic resource] / by Jon Jerstad, Lisbet Holtedahl, and Northern Lights Film Productions.

Sultan Issa Maigari is the ruler of the northern Cameroon province of Adamawa, an area the size of England. Served by a liveried bodyguard of servants and slaves, he lives in an extraordinary thatched palace with his harem of wives and concubines and his thirty children. We are in a world of heraldr...

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Online Access:	Online Access (via Alexander Street Press)
Main Author:	Jerstad, Jon
Corporate Author:	Northern Lights Film Productions
Other Authors:	Holtedahl, Hans
Format:	Electronic Video
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1995.
Series:	Ethnographic video online, volume 1.
Subjects:	North Province (Cameroon) > Court and courtiers. North Province (Cameroon) > Social life and customs. Nonfiction films.