Ndabaga
Ndabaga is a girl who lived around 1700, and is the son of Nyamutezi in Bwishaza in Western Province (formerly in Kibuye ). I thought that he was born alone, when he was a baby his father came to his rescue. No one could leave the temple without someone to take him away. It could be done by his Son or another male relative. So this is not what Nyamutezi was, so he had to stay in the sample. When he left, Ndabaga asked his mother where his father lived, and his mother replied that he lived in the temple. I asked, "So he's not coming home?" "It's because he doesn't have a son or a brother to raise him," said his mother. It was then that Ndabaga began to practice the tasks of a boy, such as jumping; shooting; throwing a spear; to make a bow and arrow, to prepare to go to rescue his father in battle. He trained for these jobs and stayed there, he even went to the carpenters to strip and sew their breasts so that they wouldn't open and there would be someone from where he knew she was a girl, his goal was not achieved. His mother asked him his purpose in doing all this, Ndabaga replied: "So I'm in my father's group, and who will be redeemed?"
When Ndabaga reached puberty, he said to his mother: "My father died before I was young, I want to go see him together, and redeem him for example." His mother is covering him with cotton wool, and he says that other old men have taken theirs by example. When he got there, Ndabaga asked the boys of his age to show him Nyamutezi, they showed him and looked at him, they talked to each other and were happy. I asked: "What prevented you from going home?" “I have lost my son and I am failing because of old age,” said the father. I wanted to tell him, don't say I'm a girl, say I'm a boy, because I've learned and know the duties of a boy. His father said: "If you can, what is it like?" I was looking at him. Nyamutezi wants to convince him, he forces him to see if he can do it. I was a witness to it. He gave him a spear and said: “There, throw it there, I'll see you deliver it.” I was going to attack him. He gave him children of his own age to race, and he showed them the rope. His father was very proud of him, so he showed him to the model doctor and said: "This is my son." They let him go home.
I was studying the traditions that existed at that time and he knew them, and he became a loved and admired elite because he was careful and obeyed in everything that he was led. This made him a role model, even giving others to share a lot of cattle. For example, the children who were with him were jealous of him because he gave them a lot of cattle and he came quickly. Her family knew her and said, "When you see Ndabaga, she is better than us to share more cows. She is a girl."
The news reached the King that Ndabaga was a girl. The king is to invite him to know the truth, is to force me to ask questions. “Was it a girl or a boy?” I was afraid of him because he refused to lie to the Lord that it would not be a sin for him to drown his father in the boiling water without letting him go, and he was afraid to tell the truth without asking him why he came to the temple. The king looked at her and decided to tell her the truth: "I am a girl." The king asked him why he came to the temple. Another said, "I ran without seeing my father, I asked my mother and she told me that he is in the war and that she does not have a son to take care of him. I have to learn the boy's work so that I can take care of him. When I found out, I came to my father, and I told him that I have learned enough about the boy's work, show him that I know enough and ask him to take him, and he agreed because he saw that I am capable."
As soon as the king heard Ndabaga's words, he sent to Nyamutezi and asked him questions like he had ordered his daughter. Nyamutezi admitted to her that she was a girl. The king said: "Then what made you let him go to the boys' church?" Nyamutezi said: "Sir, I was old, and I was left as if I were in the same room because I was left alone in my room." Also, I was able to find people who could."
The king is to comfort Nyamutezi and said: Comfort, the girl you gave me, I appreciated her and I am staying with her. Now wash yourself and go with your cattle that you gave him as a gift. From then on Ndabaga was immediately taken to the Kingdom and brought up there, after she was a virgin the King married her, and he was very angry with her. Ndabaga rescued his father from the level of poverty he was in, and since then the King ordered that those who do not grow will be dismissed and return home because it is a scandal to see that Rwanda is still associated with women who are pregnant.
To get to Ndabaga, is to get to difficulties so that someone asks for it and you don't have to buy it. When people see things that are very difficult, as if they should be men, they say the proverb: "Things have come to Ndabaga."
