Twon Gweno Wedding Song Analysis
An ethnicity that I do not identify myself with would be the Lango people in Uganda. The song that I have chosen to use as a snapshot of this ethnicity is a Twon Gweno Wedding song because marriage is super important to the Lango people. These people to this day still use a practice called polygyny (when a man has more than one wife) and has an asking price of about 14 heads of cattle and a great deal of other animals/goods such as goats, cloth, cooking pots, and hoes. Many can not afford the bride price so young boys start thinking about this dilemma and how to solve it. If the boy gains support from his mother, she can see if cattle from her husband’s heard can be put aside for the bride price. Boys are “linked to their sisters” which means