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Mention seven ways in which wrong doers are punished in the Traditional African society.

      

Mention seven ways in which wrong doers are punished in the Traditional African society.

  

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gideon
• Members of the communities especially children can be denied food for sometime so as not to
repeat wrong.
• Beating/whipping/canning/pinching for children when they disobey older people/wife beating if
wives disobey the
husband.
• Payment of fine in form of bull/goat/sheep/beer as compensation to the clan/family/parents.
• Defaming a person through songs that are composed to ridicule him/her.
• By being given unpleasant nicknames which reflected the wrong the person has done.
• Sometimes relatives refuse to name their children after errant members.
• An errant member can be summoned to appear before the council of elders /age group/clan
elders.
• An errant member can be served with banning orders/cannot attend /join feasts, initiation
ceremonies etc.
• Disowning an individual who commits a crime that is embarrassing to the relatives/parents/age
mates
• Somebody can be osatrracised by the family/clan(they go to seek refuge in another community
until the time of ostracisation is over.
gideon1 answered the question on October 2, 2017 at 17:33


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