KNOW THE WONDERFUL AND UNIQUE CULTURES OF THE WORLD FROM AFRICA, YOU WILL REMAIN OPEN MOUTH
There are more than 5,000 tribes in the world.
And Africa is the leading continent with the most tribes in the world, which has over 3,000 tribes, including 2,000 tribal languages.
Among these tribes there are tribes with strange and unique cultures that you cannot find anywhere else in the world other than Africa.
For example, the Kuru, Korowai, and Wafore tribes that eat human flesh. These tribes believe that eating the flesh of their brothers is better than burying them and leaving them to be eaten by insects until they rot. When they eat the flesh of their brothers, their souls remain and live in their bodies.
So today, I will teach you about the amazing cultures in the world from Africa.
Hajji wa Kassim
Culture is how humans face life in their environment. This includes knowledge, faith, art, laws, traditions, customs, which a person acquires as a member of society. When it comes that certain things are accepted by a certain society and implemented then it is called the culture of that society. We will agree that at least each of us is part of a certain culture, and we are proud of our culture because it is part of our life. The Swahili say that if you forget tradition, you are a slave!
In some African societies and the world in general, some cultures emerge and seem unique to other societies.
Aunt having sex with her brother's son's husband.
The tradition of the bride's aunt having sex with her niece's husband may be a strange thing in many communities, but it is not completely new to the Banyankole (or Manakole) Community.
The Yanankole are found in Mbarara, Bushenyi, Ntungamo, Kiruhura, Ibanda, Isingiro and Ntungamo districts in western Uganda
Marriage in this society, similar to many African societies, is very important because parents are happy with the marriage of their children with the aim of continuing the generation.
But when we come to the side of honor of the bride's family it is a very important thing. And this will result from their daughter getting married with her virginity.
But when the bride gets married and finds out that her husband has a problem with having sex, she informs her aunt, who makes sure by having sex with her daughter's husband to satisfy herself that she really has that problem or not.
And when he finds out that the son-in-law is really unable to have sex, he gives advice to the couple about the next step... it can be technical advice for the act if he finds out that it is the problem, or medical advice, when he sees that the son-in-law needs it.
Father-in-law to engage in marriage with his child's wife.
This is another culture that may be unique in this community found in western Uganda.
"In the Kinyankole tradition, it has been accepted since tradition for a man's father to marry his son's wife, i.e. his son-in-law. This is known as "going to see where the cows of the place went"
"Despite the fact that this tradition was forbidden by the government due to the fact that it seemed to contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS infection, it is still practiced in the villages of pastoralists, especially nomadic herders, although it is very secretive... it is difficult for an outsider to know more than family members themselves.
Bathed in milk
The Wanyankole tribe has two classes Bahima and Biru, while the Hima are herders and the Biru are farmers.
In the Hima culture, a week before getting married, the bride is bathed in cow's milk and drinks it every day and then she is smeared with cow's oil to make her skin soft.
It is a disadvantage for a Kihima woman to be thin. Therefore, the bride-to-be is fed meat, milk and cow fat so that she can gain weight and have a soft body.
The thickness of a woman's body is her beauty. According to Hima culture, a thin woman shows that the family she comes from is very poor.
The tradition of the widow sleeping with the dead
This culture is found in the Jaluo tribe found in Western Kenya and Mara on the Tanzania side. This community is known for preserving their culture for many years.
in the Kenyan Luo community, a widow is expected to sleep in the same room as her late husband before being buried.
According to the Luo, this is part of a ritual aimed at purifying widows - so that they are ready for remarriage.
When a widow sleeps in the same room with her late husband, she is expected to have "necessary dreams" with the deceased romantically, for the last time, then she will be "free" and ready to marry again. If he does not have such a dream, more traditional rituals are performed to purify him and set him free so that he can remarry.
Despite the fact that this tradition continues to be practiced by the Luos, especially those living in rural areas, some of them seem to have abandoned it due to their religious beliefs and modern life.
Flogging a corpse that hanged or committed suicide
It may not be the first time you have heard about the beliefs associated with the death of a person who hanged himself.
When a person hangs himself from a tree in the Nyanza area and some other areas of Western Kenya, his body is beaten many times before it is taken down from the tree or the place where he hanged himself, and the corpse is buried away from their home in an area described as 'gunda' — an isolated for the funeral of people who hanged themselves.
This culture is also practiced by the Abaluhya community of Western Kenya and other communities in various African countries.
While they believe that, this habit of hanging oneself is sustainable and mistakes can be inherited. And when one hangs himself, such an event will appear again in the same family and clan again in the days and years to come in that generation or another.
So they decide to carry out the culture of whipping him to remove the offenses so that they do not become sustainable in the relevant clan and family.
Women getting married (Nyumba ntobu)
Here let's understand each other well because don't mix it with western culture, no.
In the traditions, customs and cultures of many tribes, family and marriage systems differ. Because marriage is usually associated with a man and a woman, but in Mara region, Tarime district in Tanzania. The culture of women marrying their fellow women is still very common.
That is, if a woman has a lot of money and property, that is, many houses and farms. He decides to give a dowry to the woman he chose and marry and then brings her home.
Therefore, the married woman has the job of going out to give birth to children with men and then raise them and the children that will be born will all be the children of the married woman.
Therefore, the woman will get all services and wealth but the children she will bear will not have authority over them and those children will not belong to the father who gave birth to her but that generation will belong to the woman he married. This tradition is still practiced today.
Unique hairstyle (Amasunzu)
Kinyarwanda men wear the Amasunzu hairstyle, which is believed to have been used and popularized several centuries ago
Amasunzu is a style that stands out as unique among African cultures. This hairstyle is believed to have originated among Rwandans more than 500 years ago. It is a style loved by people of different social classes in Rwanda and different ages.
In the past, this style had a special meaning, but it was mainly aimed at warriors because it was believed that a man who wears this style of his hair was recognized as a strong warrior. Also for young girls it was a sign of recognition to introduce those who have their virginity, that is the girls who put this style were recognized as the ones who have their virginity as opposed to then most of them were already married.
Indeed, this was the style of Amasunzu is a way to beautify the body that attracted and put people in unique views.
Since Amasunzu is a style that is made without clips, so you need to walk with a chanuo so that you can keep combing your hair neatly.
Due to globalization, this style has been disappearing for several decades, but it has started to reappear, especially among the Kinyarwanda youth.
Example: even, The star of the movie Black Panther Lupita Nyong'o, at the Oscars 2014. She was seen with this hairstyle that her hair stylist Vernon François admitted to have used the Kinyarwanda style of the past centuries -Ie Amasunzu
Arranged marriage
A large percentage of African cultures have a system of choosing the type of suitors for their children who will marry them.
Thus, in a Somali marriage, the bride is chosen to live with her husband's parents after marriage
Until recently, marriage in the Somali community has been viewed as something that binds people together. not only women and men but also families and clans.
Even now, most Somali marriages are arranged marriages, and are usually arranged by wealthy elders and the father of the girl who wants to marry her.
This tradition is still practiced in many rural areas in the 21st century. Where the man pays a dowry to the bride's family - animals, especially camels or money.
'The body is buried sitting'
In the western region of Kenya for fear of curse they have decided to have this kind of culture..
According to the customs of the Bukusu community, residents of western Kenya. The head of the deceased should be buried facing away from the enclosure, and things such as shoes, shirts, or ties should be loosed in the body of the deceased.
To implement the tradition, the elders of the tribe exhumed and reburied their dead people, especially during Uviko 19, the period when the bodies were buried by health officials. They were seeing it as wrong, so they were exhuming and burying the bodies of their brothers in the style of sitting on the butt.
Because the Elders of the community believe that, without doing so, there is a high possibility of the dead returning and disturbing their families. Especially in dreams at night.
Breast ironing
The culture or style of 'ironing the breasts' to prevent them from becoming large is rampant in West Africa and especially in Cameroon.
Those who implement it claim that the measure to prevent the growth of the breasts of girls who are starting to mature prevents young girls from attracting men and thus avoid falling in love if they fall in love before they are old enough.
But activists continue to oppose the culture and see it as one of the violations of human rights, especially girls. It is also gender violence.
Also, the government and various human rights organizations are fighting this evil to prevent the suffering of thousands of girls. Because they experience great pain while performing the ritual.
Activists say that ironing the breasts is a violent culture that should be condemned as strongly as the culture of female genital mutilation in some African societies.
There are many cultures in Africa but these are unique and the most amazing.
Hajji wa Kassim
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