Wednesday, August 26, 2020


UMEMULO
Umemulo is a traditional Zulu coming of age ceremony for women, it is an important ritual that celebrates a young girl’s journey into womanhood. This ceremony is done by the girl’s family and it is conducted by the father of the girl or the old uncle if the father is not around.
This ritual involves a lot of work by so many people who are going to be part of it, there must be a cow when this ceremony is conducted and a Zulu traditional beer to please the ancestors. This ceremony is done when the woman is in her 21 years of age, people think that only a virgin young woman is allowed to have this kind of ceremony, women with children also gets this ceremony.
When is young woman undergoes this ceremony old women teach her the values of life and how to respect her body and culture, but most importantly how to respect her parents and even other parents who are not her parents, as we all know that saying that says ‘umntwana wam ngumntwana wakho’.
There are other young girls who accompany the celebrated woman and they sing and dance to traditional songs. The woman gets presents from her family and her friends, her head is filled with money as the people stick it in.
The father then spills the girl with bile from the cow and also teach her more values.

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