Central Africa by Daniel

  

When I studied Central Africa, I studied what happens to someone’s items when they die in the Ashanti tribe. If someone died in the Ashanti tribe, a man would come before women in getting their stuff. Also oldest comes before youngest.

 The dead person would give all their stuff to their brother, then their brother’s oldest son, then their brother’s oldest son’s oldest son. It goes on like that until passed on to women. In women, the order is sister, then sister’s oldest daughter, then sister’s oldest daughter’s oldest daughter. It passes on just like the men.

The person receiving these gifts has to be someone who can be trusted with it, not to break the item. The person can not be a drunk or any other person who could break it.