Oshiwambo ShookukuMoshinkoti shookuku
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Omusati, the mopane

Omusati

The name is remembered as “what the deceased once said” — a tree whose first name was forgotten. Its leaves are strewn in a new dwelling with a prayer for peace, and in modern times it is important at Christmas.

Who
Paternal relatives of the owner
When
When a house is built; at Christmas
Where
New dwelling
Why
The mopane asks harmony into the walls.
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 Aawambo Ethnobotany.

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.