Status not stated
One does not marry one’s clan
Aawambo are generally exogamous. A person of the Aakwanambwa clan does not marry another of that clan, even across ethnic lines. Clan membership makes you kin.
- Who
- Both families
- When
- Before any union is agreed
- Where
- Across homesteads
- Why
- Marriage should extend kinship, not fold it inward.
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 Pre-marriage, marriage and post-marriage customs and rules.
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.