This is reportedly, a Bemba wedding tradition which involves a practice meant to demonstrate that even if a woman were to lose her limbs, she would still be able to cook and care for her husband.
The Bemba people are a significant Bantu ethnic group residing primarily in Zambia’s Northern, Luapula, Muchinga, and Northern Central provinces.
They migrated to present-day Zambia before 1740 by crossing the Luapula River from Kola. While there are other ethnic groups in the Northern and Luapula regions of Zambia with similar languages, they do not share a common origin with the Bemba.
The Bemba community established villages consisting of 100 to 200 individuals and numbered around 250,000 in 1963.
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