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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The CCAP Synod of Livingstonia has queried the culture of burying the dead with precious items saying in some cases it aggravates poverty. \u2018 The Moderator of Nthungwa Congregation Rev. Edward \u2018Jembe\u2019 Chirwa made the remarks at Chipumulo in the area of Traditional Authority (T\/A) Kampingo Sibande in Mzimba recently during the burial ceremony of Eliness Magompho who died at Mzuzu Central Hospital (MCH) after succumbing to a battle of low sugar disease.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony, relatives to the deceased buried some precious items like blankets, mats among others as a sign of respect and love. In his eulogy , Group Village Headman (GVH) Chibwana Nyangu said in Magompho, the community had lost \u201ca real Christian and a mother group leader in the quest for right to education for victims of early child marriages hence she deserved the respect, love and a decent send off.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo words can describe the depth of our shock and sadness at the heart-breaking news\u201d GVH Chibwana Nyangu said.<\/p>\n

But Jembe Chirwa addressing hundreds of mourners said elsewhere he also witnessed relatives took new mattresses, blankets and buried with the dead leaving children suffering with no mat to sleep on neither blanket to cover themselves during this cold weather, prompting other well-wishers to render support, hence he felt duty bound to voice out to the masses to get a lesson from.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen something goes wrong, we have to speak out. We are civic educators and we have to say it for the sake of people to learn a lesson from,\u201d Rev. Jembe Chirwa said.<\/p>\n

But when we sought views from a historian and a cultural man of the Ngoni ethnic group, Aupson Ndabazake Thole, who is also the Secretary for Esangweni Elders Association(EEA) within Mzimba Heritage Association (MZIHA) of the M\u2019mbelwa Chief Council, he defended the deceased family including friends for their action, saying that burying someone with items, is an old culture as old kings like Pharaohs were buried with precious items that they used.<\/p>\n

Thole noted that the culture which was practiced in many African ethnic groups has high sense of attachment to ancestral spirits such as sense of belonging and sense of collectivism, so when one dies, the living are afraid of the unknown hence the dead need to be buried with respect and love.<\/p>\n

He said, as a result they try to appease the spirit of the dead. Said Thole: \u201cApart from appeasement, everybody is suspicious that if we leave the items like blankets that the dead person used when he was ill, who is going to use them? Adding that the living don\u2019t share items with the dead.<\/p>\n

The Ngoni cultural group spokesperson added that culture says the spirit of the dead shall be visiting you during the night. But, Thole, however said, It is not that all the items are buried with the dead but a few that the deceased used. These cannot be given to children because the ancestral spirit cannot accept.<\/p>\n

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