Significance of Polygamy

In many traditional African cultures, the practice of polygamy (of one man having more than one wife) was a common, if not standard, marital state. The practice is the moral trigger for much of the French outrage that, in turn, fuels the refusals of both government and management to even negotiate with the strikers, let alone accommodate them. The practice is also the trigger for self-examination in the otherwise self-centered N'Deye Touti and Bakayoko.