To Get Married in This Tribe in Nigeria You'll Have to Be Beaten Into a Pulp to Test Your Willingnes

#AfricaDay There isn't a shortage of tribes in Africa that seems to always surprise us with their customs and traditions. Many of these tribes are very interesting with their practices and ideologies, others are simply quite strange but regardless, one senses that all African tribes whether those with strange practices or those with interesting ideologies, have given Africa the face that seems to show uniqueness and diversity. The uniqueness that exists in Africa can be seen in the manner in which several tribes go about their lives, practices, and traditions. I mean some African tribes have been known to be very extravagant when it comes to their events and practices, others have been known to simply perform rites, carefully.

Among the Africa tribes, especially those in West Africa that have been known to perform certain rites in a very unique and quite extravagant and elaborate manner is the Fulani Tribe. Other tribes might bury their dead and have celebration parties, tribes in Africa or West Africa to be precise can get married and dedicate days to the celebration but hardly can we call these elaborate compared to the practice and cultural activities that often precedes the marriage of a young man and woman in a Fulani Tribe and those which comes after the marriage. The Fulani Tribe has some of the most interesting cultural practices in West Africa and this can be seen using their system of marriage as an example.

In every other part of the world, when a man proposes marriage to his lover, he is expected to fulfil certain traditional rites as dictated by the customs and traditions of the Tribe where he seeks to take his bride. Usually, these activities involve prostration and begging, in the Yoruba Tribe, coming with quite a long list of items in the Igbo Tribe but in the Fulani Tribe, it is different, more painful, stressful, and excruciating. In the Fulani Tribe, a Tribe dominant in Northern Nigeria and can be found in other West African nations, the Supposed bride to be is given several choices and options to pick from. Usually, some of them pick the process of Sharo.

Asking that a man pays a fee or fulfils some traditional practices has always been to determine how far this said man is willing to go for his soon-to-be bride. This is how it has always been but the Fulani tribes take it even further or perhaps farther as they not only determine the love a man has for a lady by his words and confessions alone, they also test these words by making him go through a painful process called the Sharo. According to sources, Sharo has been around in the Fulani Tribe for a very long time, so long that one can hardly Separate the activity from the Fulani people. This process is sometimes regarded as a competition, where suitors who have claimed to want a girl compete to find her love and get her parent's blessings to marry her.

Usually, since there are competing suitors, the young lady gets to choose what process she wants to test the men in question, when or if she chooses the process of Sharo, the men are called on in an elaborate ceremony, one that often involves the elders of the village or community present, the parents of the young lady in question, and a whole lot of villagers present to watch and witness the failure or success of the men involved. In times when there are no competitions, the only suitor to arrive is also made to go through the process. Usually, men are flogged, beaten quite terribly, and intensely with wooden Canes or sticks to prove they want the marriage to work as much as others have claimed on their behalf.

While these men are being beaten, the villagers are to gather, sometimes cheer as each stroke hits his body and the pain bounces of his skin. The more he takes the pain, the better he handles the intense pain, the more he earns the respect of his people and loved ones, who would then look upon him as a man who is indeed ready to be called the title of the "head of a family." usually the number of times said the man is to be beaten isn't determined, as it seems to be by the discretion of the elders, but usually, when a man cannot bear the pain, faints during the processor runs, the wedding to come, is cancelled, he is disgraced and hardly ever respected. This humiliation sometimes influences their future endeavours especially when it comes to being involved in a similar practice Sharo.
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