African Culture: Meet Hamar people, a tribe where women are brutally flogged as a symbol of love for marriage

African Culture: Meet Hamar people, a tribe where women are brutally flogged as a symbol of love for marriage

Hamar people; also spelt as Hamer, are a community inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia with a total population of 46,532. They live in Hamer woreda a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations.

They are largely pastoralists, so their culture places a high value on cattle.