The traditional Village

So this is going to be the first of a few events that happened all during the same outing. The first stop was this traditional village where we heard this guy talk about the village and how some of the stuff was done.  We went into the hota (the picture above) which is this building where most of the gatherings happen.  They hold marriage ceremonies in here as well as determining the fate of criminal. For the wedding ceremony, you could either go to the magistrate and get it certified, or do the traditional way. Pretty much for the traditional way the guy has to give the girl's family 8 goats, not  as a price, more of a "thank you for raising her" kind of thing. Then they have a celebration at the girls place then at the man's place.  The chief must inspect these 8 cows to make sure they weren't stolen or are defective.  If there is anything wrong with them, the couple can't get married.  For the criminal cases, unless it is a murder case it will be resolved in the hota. There is a jury which consists of the more uppidy people of the tribe, and once they listen to person, the chief will decide the punishment. Most times the person is offered corporeal punishment or jail time.  The punishment is often the form of lashings on the bare back. Women cannot receive this punishment. Women must also wear a dress/shirt below the knees while in the hota.  Every tribe has a totem, this tribes was the crocodile.

This is a picture of me standing in front of one of the buildings. I realized that I didn't have too many pictures with me in them so I am going to try and change that.  This is a really bad picture of me, but I don't feel like taking it off and then uploading another one, so you will just have to deal with it! I believe that this building was where the grandfather of one of the old chief's lived.





 

      The picture to the left is a picture of a wall. I thought the paintings on the wall were pretty cool.   The building behind it is a really old one.

This is a picture of one of the typical houses they live in.  The village we visited was called Kanye, yes like Kanye west. The guy who was talking to us said about 450 people live in it.  There are 8 major tribes, and the Khota, the people who live in Kanye, are one of those major tribes.


So that concludes this post. It's getting late and I still have stuff to do. If you want to know anything in particular about my adventures thus far, just leave a comment and I will try my best to answer them. THANKS!