ANGELA AJAX
It is the night before my twenty-first birthday. I am at home standing outside with other girls who are my escorts throughout this ceremony. We are all naked, just covered in blankets as we are heading to the river. But before that, a cow will be slaughtered for me, and also to please the ancestors and thank them for keeping me safe.
I and the girls circled the cow and sang while we were waiting for the seer to pray to God and then the ancestors and ask them to bless our way to the river and make us come back safe again in the early hours of the morning. I am very scared about sleeping at the river, I won’t lie.
After the seer was done praying to God and the ancestors, the cow seethed violently trying to free itself but, it was tied up enough it wouldn’t escape. I didn’t und
