TRADITION AND CULTURE

Pope · Guru

TRADITION AND CULTURE

abre les ojos · Guru

Pope wrote:

I was shocked to hear from this other young girl that the kulowa fumbi tradition still xists and that it hapenned to her just last year.I felt boiling within me realising that she may have caught up with aids.To you guys whats your comments,how do we go about checking such cultures and traditions.

What is kulowa fumbi? Please explain. I'm sure I'll have something negative to say about it... Sounds painful...

Pope · Guru

This happens to girls after intiation,they are given men in mask who sleep with them just to clean them thru sex.The men are married pipo who hevent even got tested for HIV.

fandumu · Newbie

Abre

I think there are 2 forms of it, in one some cultures force young girls and boys to have sex to "intoduce them to the adult world" soon after graduating from chinamwali. I think its called kuchotsa fumbi.

In other communities, a widowed woman has to engage in a sexual intercourse with a selected man, supposedly to ebb away misfortunes, before she is allowed to re-marry. The practice is called kulowa kufa. These persistent traditions,violate the rights of women and children, and put them to risk of contracting HIV.

You are so right you will definately have negative things to say about this!

game · Guru

some traditions do suck seriously,this kind of tradition is an unknown oppression and abuse to younger girls because if am right the female mutation alone is not consential women are pushed into it by being brainwashed by their peers.this is practiced by the yaos in the mangochi area,most often in some cultures victims are layed on some triptych and offered as some sacrifice to the gods when its done some nankungwi maskes himself and take control of the victim.

its a big celebration of the year and its big because its sex oriented,most people administering this act are pervets and the government cant do anything because its blanketed in tradition.the victims often suffer in silence and some resort to prostitution after being forced into the field of maturity at an early age.if the government want to fight aids they need to put a stop to this act forthwith and the perpetrators punished accordingly.

abre les ojos · Guru

We've had this argument before about tradition and I must say that I have never heard about this practice before even 'though it doesn't really surprise me.

The whole practice seems like one designed by a male-centric community just to get laid and mask it behind so-called "tradition". Seems its all so convenient that its the men that get to decide who sleeps with whom.

Its all worng and the government should legislate against it.

Che Pensulo · Newbie

Pope wrote:

I was shocked to hear from this other young girl that the kulowa fumbi tradition still xists and that it hapenned to her just last year.I felt boiling within me realising that she may have caught up with aids.To you guys whats your comments,how do we go about checking such cultures and traditions.

Trust me...its gonna take time to abolish sum of these traditional practices. I once did survey with CSR on HIV/AIDS in Nsanje, I was intrigued aswell on how our fellow peeps are so into maintaing the kuchotsa fumbi tradition. Its part of the lives n 4 sum1 to erase it completely on their lives aint gonna b easy.They need ongoing education n its up for the government and donor organisations to help out.

abre les ojos · Guru

It is simply ritualised rape and government legislation is pretty much enough to sort it out. Or at least it should be. If we are to have confidence in MW legal framework then we don't need any "donors" to criminalise it.

game · Guru

its human rights abuse which must be abolished or the government will be to blame.its a sanctionable crime if our government gives a blind eye.

Ngwazi · Guru

Pope wrote:

This happens to girls after intiation,they are given men in mask who sleep with them just to clean them thru sex.The men are married pipo who hevent even got tested for HIV.

Pope,

Point of correction!,kulowa fumbi/kulowa kufa does not happen after a girls initiation,it happens when a husband dies and the woman is forced to sleep with a relative of her dead husband so as to"exorcise"the bad spirits,this is very common among the senas in Nsanje.

When a girl is initiated they send "fisi"to test or "re-educate" the girl on what she has just learned especially on how to handle a man both in bed and as a wife.

However I do agree with those that have called these practices wrong especially bearing in mind the HIV factor.

-- Edited by Ngwazi at 18:36, 2006-03-08

Date: Mar 8, 2006

abre les ojos wrote:

government legislation is pretty much enough to sort it out. Or at least it should be.

Once you figure out how to enforce it!

Pope · Guru

Thanks for correction Ngwazi,it should read Kuchotsa fumbi,and this was a young girl from Zomba who narrated the ordeal.Shockingly there were some lady chiefs who pretended they knew nothing.....really???????