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They arrange marriages between kinsfolk a good deal, because they don’t wish to be parted from their children by marriage, but they won’t look after their kinsman’s child. They won’t touch the child of a co-wife, either […] You will not touch the first child of your kawa; you know ‘Yarjaba—she and ‘Yardada are kawaye, so ‘Yarjaba will not touch my grandchild Maikumata. If she is playing with a stone and it falls near me when I am carrying the child on my back, she will ask me to push it over to her, she won’t come near him. She will sit over there, she will come no closer. His mother will suckle him when no one is there, but her kawa will never touch him. The mother’s kanwar rana will take the child on her back and look after him. Yaya, too, will take up the first child of her kanwar rana.
- Source: Baba of Karo. Baba of Karo, a woman of the Muslim Hausa. London: Farber and Farber, 1954.
- Culture: Hausa
- Location: Africa