Shona customs
Subtitle: essays by African writers
By: edited by Clive and Peggy Kileff.
Contributors: Kileff, Peggy, joint comp.
Publisher: Mambo Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: [Gweìo, Rhodesia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Shona (African people)
Description: The essays presented in this book are among the best received in an essay competition on Shona culture and traditions. The information contained in these essays includes such items as the customary marriage negotiations between families, the role and importance of cattle in Shona society, the ceremony whereby a deceased's spirit is brought home to his village and integrated into the ancestral world by his descendants, the ceremony of installing a new chief, the burial of a chief, the provision made for a widow after her husband's death, how the cause of death is ascertained by a diviner, and others.
Notes: Selections from an essay competition on Shona culture and traditions, held in 1968.