Today we tour the Dinka custom of marriage.
Despite payment of dowry that ranges from 100 to 500 cows, women are treated godly.
Once a man gets married, his wife will not cook or sweep for 4 years.
This period is called “Anyuuc” (Generous Welcoming).
It is meant for the new bride to rest, relax and study her husband homestead values.
During this time, her husband’s sister will do the cooking, washing utensils, collecting firewood, fetching water, and doing other domestic work till later.
After 4 years, her husband decides to arrange a very big party called “Thaat” (cooking festival) where 3 cows and 5 goats are slaughtered to initiate a wife into cooking for the family.
But if the man misbehaved during the 4 years the wife can decide to leave and she doesn’t even have to pay back the dowry.
Hiyo pesa yote afadhali kuchukua room ya Airbnb hapo Kilimani uishi for sixty years alafu unakula lanye kila jioni Calabash. Life is vanity. One cow is roughly KSH 50000. So five hundred cows= KSH 25 million
I wish they expended as much effort and time to STEM matters. During my graduate studies, I schooled with a number of South Sudanese chics. Hao madem walikuwa fire. Managed to dick two but didn’t want anything else.