...Thesemarriages are promoted by the royal decree, toprevent the females from contaminating the royalblood by illicit connection, if they remain divorced,without a new husband... 
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
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