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There is a Strong spirituality connected with an African hut that never features in most literature. There has been a struggle to design buildings that look African without a clear understanding why.
Traditionally, the father of the home would ask his son to build a home. The father would pick a stick and place it in the ground where the House should be. The son would then call friends who would help him build the walls of the house around the stick in the ground. The main pole supporting the house would be in the middle. In other instances the middle pillar would be symbolised with a pointed stick protruding from the roof when the house is completed.
The centre of the house becomes sacred. That is where the fire will be lit or the stool of the father would be when he passes on. The three legged stool symbolises the leadership coming from God through the father. hence its sacredness in nature.
In meetings too the centre would be left for God and the people sitting around in a circle are symbolically sitting around God. So what is passed in such a meeting would be counted as blessed from God. Prayers would be offered around the fire, or around the sacred pole in the homestead. The Kamba people of Kenya have this rich tradition too, so do most African bantu groups of people. God in the center of the community.
Leadership organisational structure becomes circular than topdown. circular because everyone contributes to the centre( god) and not for themselves. people work for each other as Nyerere envisaged but did not understand the reason of leadership structure behind it.
Circular leadership structure has no class nor gender. It is people who are meeting to take care of each other, suffer together and pray together, men women, children and even visitors. Ranger&Kimambo(1972) presented that picture of Africans welcoming visitors as symbol of welcoming god in the community to share their blessings. But the missionaries thought otherwise.
Why are African huts round? They symbolise equality, togetherness, leadership in God and trust for each other. The chief was just but a coordinator of affairs of the community.
Reginald Nalugala
PhD development, Poverty and faith,
Oxford Center for Mission studies,
Oxford, UK
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