WAWU! Meet The Ugandan Tribe Where The Brides Aunt Sleeps With The Groom To Test His Potency

9jafashionOct 14, 2020Read original

How much influence should aunties have on their nieces?

In many African cultures, aunties provide counselling to their young nieces as they age from adolescence to adulthood.

When it comes to marriage, these aunties prepare their nieces for the challenges that lie ahead. But for the Banyankole people in Southwestern Uganda, the aunt had more than the above, especially during the marriage.

The primary responsibility of the aunt was to confirm that the groom is potent and that the bride has defended her virginity before the marriage is consummated.

As a potency test for the groom, the aunt was sometimes required to have s*x with the groom for confirmation of his potency and virility. She also had to “test” if the bride is still a virgin before they are allowed to consummate their marriage.

In other traditions, the aunt is said to go as far as listening in or watching as the bride and groom have s*x in order to prove the couple’s potency.

Inasmuch as this outdated practice may sound weird, it shows how the people of Banyankole, particularly the Bahima tribe hold virginity in high esteem.

As soon as a Banyankole girl is eight, she goes through a lot of restrictions to prepare her for marriage.

When other children her age in other cultures are out having fun and playing, a girl in this part of Uganda is mostly kept indoors, where she is fed beef and millet porridge and forced to drink milk in large quantities so that she becomes fat.

Unlike today where men treasure small sized women, in the Ankole tradition, slim girls were unfit for marriage. That is why among the Bahima, girls who were about the age of marriage were forced to feed on milk until they were very heavy.

Being fat is synonymous with beauty among the Banyankoles. When she starts developing breasts, she is also asked by her parents to abstain from s*xual activities.

It is the duty of a Banyankole father to find a wife for his son as he pays the bridewealth as well. This consists of some cows, goats and pots of beer, depending on how rich a person is.

Once the bride price is paid, the marriage preparations begin. On the wedding day, there is a lot of feasting at the bride’s home, where the father is expected to slaughter a bull.

During this ceremony, the bride and the groom are not party to the discussions. The bride is usually hidden while the groom has to keep quiet throughout the discussions and wait for the outcome.

In this case however, the groom-to-be is ‘king’ because everything is done on his behalf.

In traditional Ankole society, a man marries a woman. A woman never marries a man. It is taboo if a woman seeks out a man’s hand in marriage. Also, it is the man who chooses not the woman. Therefore, the woman has to be ‘marry-able’.

At the bridegroom’s home, there is another feast where the marriage is consummated. This is after the bride’s aunt has “tested” her niece’s purity and slept with the groom to also check his potency.

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Ali Babito Kololo was found guilty of being part of the gang of Somali pirates that shot and killed Mr Tebbutt, 58, in September 2011. The gang burst into the couple's remote villa in Kenya and afterwards Mrs Tebbutt was abducted and taken to Somalia where she was held for over six months.

Kololo, who guided the kidnappers to the resort, was found guilty of robbery with violence by Kenyan magistrate Johnstone Munguti. He was also sentenced to seven years in jail for the abduction of Mrs Tebbutt.

A death sentence has not been carried out in Kenya for the past 26 years and most sentences for death row prisoners are commuted to life imprisonment.

A spokesperson for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: ‘We welcome efforts by the Kenyan authorities to bring those responsible for the kidnap of Judith Tebbutt and the murder of her husband, David, to justice…’

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