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Funeral takes three days
Birthdays or special feasts around the birth of a baby are unknown in Kpare. But a funeral is an event not to be missed. There are three full days of extensive mourning. Mourners are bound here to neighbours or family with pieces of cloth or ropes to give comfort and keep them from harming themselves. If the deceased is a woman all her pots are put together and broken ritually. One of the customs here is a spontaneous act whereby elements of past of the deceased are relived or reference can be made to his or hers place of origin. |
What will it bring this year?
Fields between the componds of Kpare. Millet and guinea corn is planted on hills to retain the water a little longer. Other crop is planted in between to reduce the risk of a bad harvest. |
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Ecological building
There is no need to teach the people of Kpare to build in an ecologically responsible way. A resident pulverizes a wall, so that it can be used again for building, or shoveled on the fields and thus recycled. Building with mud and clay is healthier too, because it makes the temperature in the rooms much more equable than with metal roofings and cement in the intense heat of this region. |
Water, water, indispensable commodity
Water, water. Every day some hundred liters are needed foor basic needs. Washing, cooking and preparing pito beer. Each morning women and girls go to the well to fetch water on their head in large containers. There is never enough water to irrigate the fields. Even early in the morning water evaporates before reaching the roots of the crop. |
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