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Greeting a visitor, and the one who returns

A visitor the house does not know waits in the ehale, the passage yard, until someone comes out to greet them. Someone back from a long absence is asked: Mwa galuka? — Are you back? — and then whether they have come back safely.

Who: Host and guest
When: On arrival and on return
Where: Ehale and meeting place
Why: The threshold needs its own words.

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 Oshiwambo forms of greeting.

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.