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What life in precolonial southeast Africa was like.

You were born in your traditional homestead in a traditional hut. I imagine because of lack of modern medicine, the likelihood of obtaining disease or dying would've been increased. 

As a toddler you eat smaller versions of what the adults eat & coarse maize or sorghum porridge. 

In your teens, a lady may be married off & a male may join regiments & start considering starting his own family so you'd get circumcised. 

After 21 years or adulthood, you would've been married (or a commoner i. e. permanent regiment, herdboy, hunter or messenger). Your wives plough the fields, you or your sons look after your livestock, you hunt & watch for predators & hostile invaders. You would pay tribute to an elder chief or king of the region in meetings with them & ceremonies like "first fruits" festivals. 

You would likely not reach old age as there was lack of modern medicine. 

During periods of war, the local chief or king may require your service for battles & if you're unlucky, hostile invaders would raid your homestead, steal your livestock & burn your home to the ground. 

Also, you could be killed by doing something a chief or king disagreed with. 

There was no plumbing so, you'd go to a designated place outside to do your defecating. 

Some huts had no closing doors so all sorts of insects & little critters would crawl into your hut. 

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