King Peggy: la secrétaire devenue reine d'Otuam

Une citoyenne américaine née au Ghana est devenue en 2008 la première femme à porter le titre de roi d'Otuam. Une histoire comme les Américains les aiment. CNN aborde le sujet aujourd'hui.

 "When Peggielene Bartels went to bed on a summer night in 2008, she was an ordinary administrative assistant living in a modest one-bedroom condo just outside Washington D.C.

But a few hours later, when a persistent ringing phone woke her up in the dead of the August night, the 55-year-old found out she was much more than simply a secretary. At the other end of the line was Bartels's cousin, from Otuam, a small fishing village on the coast of Ghana. Excited and humble, he congratulated her on being the new king of Otuam.

 "I said, 'listen, it's 4 o'clock in the morning in the U.S., I am very tired, let me sleep,'" remembers Bartels. "I thought he was trying to really play games with me."

 http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/31/world/africa/king-peggy-otuam-ghana/index.html?hpt=hp_c4