1 / 6

SENEGAL

SENEGAL. Family Customs. Amy Kung Victoria Braga Erica Green. Food Customs. Sharing a kola nut (which contains a mild caffeine stimulant) is a gesture of friendship. Breakfast is anywhere from 6:00 to 9:00 am. Dinner is usually after 8:00.

jodie
Download Presentation

SENEGAL

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SENEGAL Family Customs Amy Kung Victoria Braga Erica Green

  2. Food Customs • Sharing a kola nut (which contains a mild caffeine stimulant) is a gesture of friendship. • Breakfast is anywhere from 6:00 to 9:00 am. • Dinner is usually after 8:00. • Several people eat from one big communal dish, but only from the portion right in front of them. They do not make eye contact during the meal. • A favorite dish is rice and chicken covered with a sauce made of sliced onions and spices. • Men and women eat apart in traditional homes, with children and adults separated as well.

  3. Home Customs • Rural extended families in Senegal often live in compounds with separate dwellings for each family. • They live in mud-brick structures with thatched roofs, with a sparse amount of furniture. • Bed frames are made from branches and bamboo. The mattresses are made of rice sacks stitched together and stuffed with dry grass. • Urban houses are rectangular and made of concrete walls and tin roofs. • The home has several rooms so the extended family can live together.

  4. Rights of Passage Customs • Baptisms, circumcisions, marriages, and funerals are very important. • Families are heavily involved in courtship. • An Islamic man may have up to four wives with the consent of each wife. • It costs a lot of money to afford a bride-price (dowry), so men are usually way older than their wives. • Women who are pregnant give birth at home with the help of a midwife, and there is a big feast featuring a slaughtered sheep or goat. • After giving birth, women often return to household work in a few days.

  5. Social Customs • In traditional families, children and women curtsy to their elders to say hello and to say goodbye. • It is rude to use the left hand. • People are always loyal to their families first. After that they are loyal to an ethnic group, a religion, the home village, Senegal, the region of French West Africa, and the continent of Africa. • Doing and returning favors are extremely important to the Senegalese people. • Men and women who made the pilgrimage to Makkah, Saudi Arabia are treated with great respect. • The people of Senegal think the concept of hospitality (teranga) is extraordinarily important. Sharing with family and friends it essential for good relations.

  6. Works Cited "Customs of Senegal." Sidebar-MSN Encarta. MSN. 30 Oct. 2008.<http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_631522255/custo ms_of_senegal.html>. "Republic of Senegal." CultureGrams World Edition. 2008. ProQuest LLC and Brigham Young University. 29 Oct. 2008.<http://online.culturegrams.com/world/world_cou ntry.php?contid=1&wmn=africa&cid=141&cn=senegal>.

More Related