Status not stated
The birthing hut
Osakalwa
Near labour the mother moves here with the midwife. The baby is cleaned with red ochre and fat, the cord is tied, and the child is seated on a sifting basket, ongalo, for luck.
- Who
- Mother and midwife
- When
- Labour and birth
- Where
- Osakalwa
- Why
- Birth is given its own room and its own attendant.
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 The Oshiwambo Traditional Homestead.
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.