Agricultural Monitor Intervenes in Court Case

Photographer

Vansina, Jan

Date

• March 1954

Summary

• The person with the fez seated among the judges is an agricultural monitor with the colonial administration. The law suit does not involve him but, contrary to custom, he intervenes with the court.
• This court case concerned the issue of a woman and modern-style bridewealth. The task of the village court is to seek an amicable settlement through mediation which failed in this case.