Sociological Issues: Gender, Health and Education
Baggara are mostly illiterate. In the early days, they look to the school as a way to alienate their kids, to teach them moral delinquencies, to distract them from Baggara way of life: cattle herding and nomadic movement. Young Baggara look after cows daylong, they return to Baggara camp during evening times. Baggara lacks clean drinking water, health clinics, electricity, television, radio and other forms of media. Pregnant women rarely visit clinics or doctors. Female genital mutilation is common. Facial scarring called Shoulokh, lips sticking, and braided hair are usual practices among women.
Women represent an important workforce; they milk cows, prepare meals, raise kids, market dairy products, build houses, and participate in crops cultivation. Baggara youth are cheerful group in the Baggara families; their main mental set to look for festivals, rituals, dancing gossip around for absentinence and only supervises young kids to range cattle. Men are completely idle during dry seasons, play Dala (sort of cards played with sticks) and coordinate the meager activity during summer such as delivering grains to mills and bringing the daily family grocery from women?s marketed-dairy-product money. Baggara raise huge herds, never for marketing, but for prestige. The wealth and prestige is determined by the size of one's herds. Women crush on those with large herds. Barbara Michael,,, work is a great contribution to the subject of Hawazma socio-enonomics.
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