SHOULD WE GO BACK TO THE ROOTS AND EMBRACE KUTEKA MARRIAGE?
Pic from Swazi Observer Newspaper Ever since the arrival of western missionaries in Africa, Africans have been urged to forfeit their traditional way of taking a wife and embrace the western way of getting married. Swazis from the kingdom of Eswatini are not an exception. Although it is true that some people still prefer the traditional way of getting married known as kuteka, most people in our days are embracing the western way of getting married. This is because for the past few decades most churches have been painting kuteka as evil. According to most pastors during the kuteka ceremony there are rituals that are performed that symbolizes a pact with the death known as ancestors aka emadloti in siSwati language. The million dollar question is, is all kuteka evil? Of course on the subject of evil we will have to assemble the priests and bishops to answer it. Since I am not a bishop, I am only going to state what I have read and observed. Needless to say, I am well versed wit...