Free People

[[File:Free1.jpg]] THE FREE INLANDER
INLANDER/KIMWITU SOCIAL CLASSES ROYALTY- The ruling class. Those who do not speak to commoners. Noblemen are allowed multiple wives.

ARISTOCRACY- The management class.

COMMONERS- The working class.

Unlike Outlanders, Inlander marital unions are between husbands and wives, the tradition of Free Companionship is not practiced in the Rainforest.

-Free Men-
Free Men are expected to be loyal to the Home Stone, to work, be proficient at arms in the event of having to defend the community and in general be a law-abiding subject of their Mfalme.

Male occupations among the Inlanders reflect those to be found in the Outlander cultures, Askari [Warrior], Daktari [Doctor], Mwandishi [Griot/Scribe], Builder [Kujenga], Hunters, Fishermen, Slavers and so on. Livelihoods are also divided among social-classes, as among the Mzungu/Outlanders, the professional-class being the Nobility. A nobleman would never build a fish-pond and a commoner would never become an ambassador.

-Free Women-
What is expected of Free Men, short of taking up arms, is also expected of Inlander Free Women. A woman is expected to work toward making her community a better place to live, to be a good spouse to her husband and a good mother to her children.

Traditional occupations for Inalnder women include mid-wifery, herbalism, textile-work, such as making bark-cloth, basket and mat-weaving which is a lucerative occupation, construction of house thatching, stoop-labor in agricultural gardens and food-gathering from the Rainforest.

While veils and robes are reserved for the higher nobility and Aristocracy, proper behavior is expected of every Kimwitu female.