African Culture: Meet Hamar people, a tribe where women are brutally flogged as a symbol of love for marriage

Hamar people; also spelt as Hamer, are a community inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia with a total population of 46,532. They live in Hamer woreda a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations.

They are largely pastoralists, so their culture places a high value on cattle. They speak the language called Hamer and practice Animism religion.


The Hamar people are known for their unique custom of “bull jumping,” which initiates a boy into manhood. First, female relatives dance and invite whipping from men who have recently been initiated; this shows their support of the initiate, and their scars give them a say on who they marry.


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Sharow it's called.

Fulani suppose dey beat women also for Naija

incandescentena:
I will want to come as a male from this tribe in next life

Ebiragirl:

Make i no talk because

Gender over-equality organic love culture.

Africa my Africa:

Omo see beating wey dey peel skin😁

No disrespect to their culture sha
But this is barbaric
Hanhan!

Still better than Sharia Law practiced by people from the Sahel

This is just plain violent abeg!

Mathantics:
Still better than Sharia Law practiced by people from the Sahel

OK, that there is disgusting culture!