 The Nauda wanted me to become Nauda. They would say, you're going to become Nauda, you're going to marry a Nauda woman, you're going to speak Naudum. Toward the end of his two years in Togo, Mercorel Chapman accepted his village chief's invitation to be initiated as a Nauda man. The ceremony lasted a full day and involved incantations, the sacrifice of chickens, and a certain kind of arguing.