Nkam-Igwal, ‘payment for use of anatomical arms’, at the manual crop harvest
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The harvesting of crops like millet and sorghum is done by communal neighbourhood labour. The children are responsible for collecting the harvested heads of guinea-corn or millet to a central pile. They may sing any entertainment songs. They stretch out their arms as containers to collect the harvest. The to-andfro movement to collect the harvest is very strenuous. But the child is compensated at the end by being allowed to take home the very last collection. The mothers typically encourage their children and wards to take advantage of the special offer.
The men on their part would have noticed the more hardworking children and similarly encourage the young ones to take full advantage of the opportunity as well. The children therefore stretch out their arms to the utmost limit in order to collect ample portions of the harvest. This exercise eases off the fatigue that the children have endured in the course of the day, and their display of greed attracts much commendation and laughter from the adults and the children alike.Through this rewarding process that ends the harvest, the child is taught the dignity of labour and the heroic feat of straining himself to the limit of his/her endurance in order to take home an abundant harvest for the mother. The praiseworthy climax in this process is that each child is given an equal opportunity to compete; and so justice is seen to have been done when some of the children distinguish themselves and emerge as champions. Indeed, the sheer display of such virtues as patience, a determined willpower and physical strength are moral values of intrinsic worth that can see them through life, once the children can cultivate such affirmative character traits at this early stage of life.
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