Read the text and answer the questions A and B:
A) How important to Zambians is knowing their country’s traditions? Why?
B) What are some of the consequences Abigail and Agnes faced for not knowing their country’s traditions?
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Lukasa, 16 november 2009 (IRIN) - Abigail Mwanashimba has looked after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses. She is now 19 yers old, and without relatives to represent her at lobola (bride price) negotiations
"I don't know anything about my tribe or its culture because there has never been anyone to teach or show me," she told IRIN/ PlusNews. "I got very little lobola, but the last straw was the humilatuon I suffered at my in-laws' home, when i embarassed them by perfoming the wrong dance."
Losing out on the bride was one thing, but when she realised that the counsellors she had hired had tought her the wrong traditional dances, she refused to pay them their 500,000 Zambian kwacha (US$100) fee, and is now facing a lawsuit.
Agnes Nagubeni, from the centra town of Kabwe, also knows this kind of humiliation; she has lived with the embarrassment of not having undergone of her tribe. Their neighbours ridiculed them for eating pasta, bread, and ricem instead of the staple, nshima- thick maize-meal porridge - that neithe she nor her three sisters can book.
"The neighbours laughed at us for eating the white man's food, which they said was not real food, but what are we supposed to do? we eat what we are given.
That's just how it is" ngubeni said
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