How did the community identify the different roles of men and women?
There were community accepted roles for both the female and the male. Well for the men, in the home, the circumcised boys would make sure they were the ones who were grazing the animals, because the most important thing at that time was the keeping of animals. Or if there were beehives, these were the people to make sure they were put in specific areas, and the honey harvesting was done by them. And when there was any type of a fight within the family, these were the people to be called upon. And then because there was no education, mostly at that time, except for a few areas for example this place of Kopsiro, the light of education did not come early, except that some of the areas that were exposed to the missionaries had the light of education much earlier. But even though, the light was very slow to this end of Mount Elgon. Now on the girls side, they were also trained on how to keep the house clean and tidy. We used to have a lot of kibuyus (buckets), and they were taught how to cl
