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Sabatier, the oath of 1926 and the Rhade law code
For thirteen years a French administrator named Léopold Sabatier governed Darlac on the principle that the land belonged to the Rhade and that outsiders should be kept off it. He set up a court that judged by Rhade law, a school that taught in Rhade, and on January 1, 1926, an oath-taking assembly of the chiefs. The same year he was removed, and...
The bracelet
A brass or copper ring on the wrist is one of the oldest bonds among our peoples. It sealed engagements and marriages, made friends of strangers, bound villages in sworn alliance and paid the midwife. In the 1960s our villages gave it to the American soldiers they trusted, and many of those veterans kept it.
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