Wedding celebrations can last several days. Guests bring gifts, and relatives help out. A feast is prepared, and everyone enjoys singing and dancing. I n rural areas, men and women have sharply defined roles. Men fish or hunt, and perform heavy farming tasks.
Women work on the farms, raise children, perform all household jobs and sell goods in the market.
Women in rural Zambia traditionally have had a lower status than men. The pointed roofs are thatched with bundles of grass, carefully overlapped to keep the rain out. In other communities, people build square houses from handmade bricks and decorate their homes with wall paintings. In the cities, families may live in apartment buildings or cement block houses with tin roofs. Because of a shortage of affordable housing, shantytowns and slums have sprung up around most Zambian cities.