Temptations, simsim and devious mothers in law: all part of the package an omwea, a newly married woman, had to overcome just to make herself a nest
A newly married woman in my language, Lubukusu, is known as omwea. Any of us can imagine just what it took for her to set up a nest for herself in the communal living homestead of our forebearers. Growing up, my mother was always preparing us girls for a future with a no nonsense mother … Read more
