When their mother's back was turned, they interacted freely with their younger half-siblings and often ate food that the junior wives gave them.
This is well illustrated in the Borana polygamous household where senior wives enjoy more privileges than junior wives.21 The Gada egalitarian system collective accorded women status and a venue to perform their roles.
Junior wives in polygynous Rwandan marriages suffer low status and often agonising poverty, and they have overwhelmingly more daughters than higher-status first wives or the wives of monogamously married men.
"Unfortunately, not having a junior wife is now shameful for wealthy men".
In western eyes the "junior wife" was a concubine, but in Chinese law she had the rights of any spouse.
Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, Sheikh Mohammed's junior wife, is the president of the Fédération Equestre Internationale, endurance riding's governing body.
That evening, Altman distributed the presents he'd brought — the watch he gave to Manyenga, a shawl he gave to the senior wife, a pocketknife to the junior wife, some books for the children.
Now 36, she is the worldly junior wife of Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, 61, making appearances in jeans, her long hair flowing, even as his senior wife leads a more private life.
It is not known whether Sheikh Mohammed was on board that flight but a spokesman for his junior wife, Princess Haya, insisted the Sheikh knew nothing of the seizure until recently.
Rediger extols the virtues of polygamy (he has just acquired a 15-year-old junior wife, who scampers around in a Hello Kitty T-shirt), and describes the exact moment when he realised Europe had "accomplished its suicide".
Her Highness Princess Haya, the sheikh's junior wife and president of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports, has been ordered to conduct a thorough investigation into the seizure at the airport and a separate raid by the VMD last month at Moorley Farm in Newmarket, a location owned by his Darley Management operation, where a number of similar products were found.
