1. See, e.g., Fyzee 1964: 35.

2. Hallaq 1984.

3. For a detailed description of Dyula weddings, see Launay 1975.

4. For a more detailed discussion of the Ivoirian Civil Code and its impact among the Dyula, see Launay 1982: 139-45.

5. For reasons I do not understand, these lamb sandwiches seem to form part of the ceremony. The only other sermons I witnessed in which meat was distributed to the audience were during donba , a Muslim calendar holiday. However, donba sermons, unlike all other sermons (including wedding sermons), are an occasion for competitive ostentation in providing food for the audience.

6. The entire Saganogo kabila of Koko is an offshoot of the Saganogo of Kong, and consequently its members are all agnates of Mammadou-Labi. This certainly reinforces his links to the Dyula of Koko, though the fact is not relevant to the issue of wedding sermons as far as I know.

7. These names are all pseudonyms, except for Mammadou-Labi Saganogo. As he is a nationally known figure, and since his attempt to promulgate the new wedding ceremony was an explicitly public act, I see no reason not to give him the credit for it.