Status not stated
The cattle kraal
Oshigunda
The kraal is divided into sections for cows, bulls, calves, goats, and sheep. Omugolo may be planted in a new pen so the herd gathers and returns.
- Who
- Herders and the head of the house
- When
- Daily, and when the herd moves to the cattle post
- Where
- Oshigunda
- Why
- Livestock is the household’s store of life.
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 and 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.