Story Compiled by Osuta Yusuf.
Education stakeholders and elders from Kakwa tribe in Koboko District have on Saturday 20-1-2024 urged children to embrace cultural activities.
The stakeholders made the appeal during a cultural music dance where the elders also offered a cultural prayer to cleans a family whose children had started getting misfortunes and falling sick because their grandmother who willed traditional dance to be conducted at her funeral, wasn’t done.
An elder in Kakwa tribe, Mr Diba John Lega said, in those centuries when someone dies and the death is suspected to be caused by another person, the elders would sit down, put five stones and give them names, one of which would bear name of the suspect, a chicken is slaughtered at this point, they put it in the middle of the five stones, and the named stone where the chicken eventually dies, points out the killer.
Photo: Mr Diba John Lega
Nyarilo Secondary School student Rashida Alone who rallied her fellow Youths to join such events, described the traditional music dance ceremony as enjoyable and far different from where they used to dance, like in discos.
BYTE// RASHIDA ALONE.
Photo: Rashida Alone a student of Nyarilo Secondary School
Mr Moro Hassan, a Kakwa by tribe, suggested that, people need to return to the cultural ways of conducting funerals and burials because it is not financially costly.
Photo: Mr Moro Hassan
The district education officer (DEO) for Koboko, Mr Wayi Dengumulayi has urged school going children to fully participate in cultural events, traditional music dance among others, which he described as very important for passing history exams.
When asked on how the education sector has been promoting culture, the DEO said, Music Dance and Drama (MDD) have been put in the teaching curriculum in all the schools.
However, Mr Wayi decried the inadequate period in the timetables allocated for teaching MDDs in schools.
Photo: The district education officer (DEO) for Koboko, Mr Wayi Dengumulayi