But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch ...

For the people of Mankon in the grass-fields of north-west Cameroon, their king - known as the fon or fo - never dies. He simply disappears. So the regional governor Adolphe Lele incurred the ...