Omg, I didn’t know that was a thing. My grandma whispered to me when my dad passed but like we were sitting so it wasn’t while I was asleep. I always hated the way the news delivered to me, I didn’t know it was a cultural thing. 😭
Do people still whisper in a child’s ear when they’re sleeping to tell them where their lost parent is? Or is that another one of the things people have decided to let go of?
I found myself agreeing only bc I know it’s an old head belief to associate black/dark things to ubunuku.😭@amahlegebane actually made a video about the way we were raised teaching us that white is clean & cleanliness is next to godliness. Weaponising cleanliness, she called it.
This to say, I used to get shamed a lot as a young girl for liking darker colours because it meant ngiyinuku. And it conditioned me to have that be my first thought about others as well when it’s okay for people to just like dark colours, nkosi yami. 😭