Book Highlight: Women do More Work than Men: Birifor Women as Change Agents in the Mission and Expansion of the Church in West Africa

Imhobnuor Kambou, commonly known as Mankpin, Madimanselsel, Signeur, or Maman Anne, was born in Tassèb, Malba, in 1935 and died on 10 January 2008 in Gaoua after a short sickness. When Kambou was a young girl, a woman took her in to help her look after her son, Ernest Palé. When Kambou reached nubility age around 1950, the woman’s husband decided to take Kambou as a second wife, upon the advice of his wife. After discussing the matter with Kambou’s family, her parents agreed to the marriage. According to Palé, Kambou had two children in Malba, but they both died. Then the family moved to Gaoua where she had a boy in 1954 (Diinté Kambou). She gave birth to another son in 1960 who also passed away, and she finally had a girl, Manlé Kambou, in 1963.