Oshiwambo ShookukuMoshinkoti shookuku
Status not stated

Close, distant, and named kin

Aakwetu

Relatives are graded by distance: close maternal kin, more distant cousins, and clan-mates whose common ancestor is no longer known. The distant labels are often left out of conversation because they can be heard as slighting.

Who
Anyone addressing family
When
In speech, every day
Where
Homestead and gathering
Why
The word you use tells the distance of blood.
The author’s paper does not say whether this is still practised today, so no status is shown.

Summarised from Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi’s Kinship terms and customs and Clan System.

This is a doorway, not the full account. The complete description stays with Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi until he releases it. Read it in his books.