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16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:00pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
Some African tribal traditions are a mystery and a fascination for most of the modern world. Tribal communities sometimes live without many modern comforts the rest of us have. Here are 16 fascinating traditions from several African tribes. 4 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:08pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
1) Kidnapping your bride
In the Sudanese Latuka
tribe, when a man wants to marry
a woman, he kidnaps her. Elderly
members of his family go and ask
the girl’s father for her hand in
marriage, and if dad agrees,
he beats the suitor as a sign of his
acceptance of the union. If the
father disagrees, however, the
man might forcefully marry the
woman anyway. 6 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:10pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
2) Khweta Ceremony This Southern African ceremony is practiced by several tribes and is how a young boy proves his manhood. When they are of age, boys are sent to spend several days or weeks in a circumcision lodge during winter, where they’re put through rigorous and often dangerous tests and rituals such as continuous dancing until exhaustion, and circumcision. 3 Likes
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:13pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
3) Putting a price on the bride Lobola is an ancient and controversial Southern African tradition in which the families of a bride and groom negotiate how much the groom must pay for the bride. All negotiations must be done in writing — never by phone or in person. The two families cannot even speak until negotiations are complete 4 Likes
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by dnacrystal: 5:14pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
I'm sure most of these will involve hurting others or themselves. These african traditions. 4 Likes |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:27pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
4) Spitting your blessings Members of the Maasai tribe in Kenya and Tanzania spit as a way of blessing. Men spit on newborns and say they are bad in the belief that if they praise a baby, it will be cursed. Maasai warriors will also spit in their hands before shaking the hand of an elder. 5 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:29pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
5) Bull jumping In order to prove their manhood in the Ethiopian Hamer tribe, young boys must run, jump and land on the back of a bull before then attempting to run across the backs of several bulls. They do this multiple times, and usually in the nude. 5 Likes
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:34pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
6) The groom wears a veil The Ahaggaren Tuaregs of Algeria are part of a larger group of Berber-speaking Tuaregs. In their culture, the men wear veils almost all the time. However, they can take their veils off when inside family camps or while traveling. 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:37pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
7) Women have their own houses In the Gio tribe in Ivory Coast, each wife has her own small house that she lives in with her children until they are old enough to move out. The children never live with their fathers. 1 Like
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:41pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
8. Women can’t grieve elders In the Southwestern Congo, the Suku tribe honors ancestors and elders, when they die, with a ceremony held in the clearing of a forest. Here, gifts and offerings are brought, but outsiders and all women are forbidden to attend.
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:43pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
9) Sons are raised by their uncles When male children reach age 5 or 6 in the Northern Angolan Songo tribe, they are sent to live with their uncles on their mother’s side. This is because chiefs inherit their position through matrilineal lines. 2 Likes
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 5:45pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
10) Wealth is measured by cows
In the Pokot tribe in Kenya, wealth
is measured by how many cows a
family has. Most Pokot people are
either “corn people” or “cow
people”— meaning that’s what
they cultivate on their land — but
all Pokot people measure their
wealth by cows. The number of
women a man can marry is
determined by how many cows he
has. 4 Likes |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 6:22pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
11) Living with animals
The Maasai people of Kenya and
Tanzania have strict policies
against killing wild animals. They
keep cattle and livestock, but
leave wild animals untouched. In
fact, each clan is associated with a
specific wild species, which they
often keep close to them and
treat as a clan member. 4 Likes |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 6:24pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
12) Red sun block The Himba people of Northern Namibia cover their skin with a mixture of butter fat and ochre — a natural earth pigment containing iron oxide — to protect themselves from the sun. For that reason, the Himba people often appear to have a red skin tone. 8 Likes
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 6:27pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
13) Hunter-gatherers
The San People of Botswana, also
called Bushmen, are hunter
gatherers who were evicted from
their ancestral land in the 1950s.
They were forbidden to hunt and
forced to apply for permits to
enter reserves. The San switched
to farming but they continued
to gather herbs for medication
and plants for food. Deprived
of the ability to hunt, San
numbers dwindled. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 6:29pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
14) Beating the suitor The Fulani tribe live in many countries in West Africa and follow a tradition called Sharo. Sharo happens when two young men want to marry the same woman. To compete for her hand, they beat one another up. The men must suppress signs of pain and the one who takes the beating without showing signs of pain can take the wife. 11 Likes |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 6:30pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
15) A thorough cleansing
The Chewa people are one of the
largest indigenous groups of
Malawi but live throughout Central
and Southern Africa. When a
person dies, one family tradition
involves taking the body into the
woods, slitting the throat, and
forcing water through the body to
cleanse it. They do this by
squeezing the corpse’s stomach
until what comes out the rear end
runs clear. |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Olamitisoji(m): 6:32pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
16) Lip stretching When a girl becomes a teenager in the Surma tribe of Southern Sudan, she begins the process of lip stretching. The girl has her bottom teeth removed to make space for a lip plate, which is increased in size annually. 3 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by jerflakes(m): 6:55pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
Those sudanese ladies though. They look like they'll kidnap me for ransom if I come to kidnap them for marriage. 3 Likes |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by McEwen(m): 6:55pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by asumo12: 6:56pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
That moment when you were sitting alone in the Church and your ex joined you and the Pastor suddenly say; hold your neighbor and say 'i will always love you' 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by youngice(m): 6:56pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
you forgot to add corruption in nigeria The process whereby elected government officials proceed to impoverish the masses voted them into power 16 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by exlink10(m): 6:56pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by Jamesclems223: 7:01pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by tucky200(m): 7:01pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by tinuolababy(f): 7:02pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
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Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by ihatebuhari(f): 7:03pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
Thank God for Christianity in Africa Useless traditions #team-Western-world 1 Like |
Re: 16 Fascinating African Tribal Traditions by OkikiOluwa1(m): 7:03pm On Jun 19, 2015 |
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