Collecting of grasshoppers in nyamanga community

Grasshoppers are one of the seasonal delicacies consumed by people in Nyamanga community Kyenjojo district. These insects come each year in the months of November and December. In the 1990s youth would prepare for and patiently await this season.
The grasshoppers are picked from the major hills and the Nyamanga community were Ruzira, Kaburaisoke, Kyangabukama which were all in another village of Kihuura. The nearby short hills where the insects would stray to when they were many in number were Nyamanga and Kyabukama.The youth mostly aged between the ages of 12-30 were the ones who were engaged in this activity. It was indeed fun as people woke up in the night at around 3:00 am to start walking towards the hills where the grasshoppers are to be collected that is if they had fallen. The bigger youth mostly those aged between 20-30 could use this time to meet their opposite sex and have a chance to establish connections as a big group of youth walked the distance of about five kilometers::
::The practice of grasshoppers collection was highly treasured and much as the older women would not set off at the same time like the youth, they joined them early in the morning. On a lucky day when the grasshoppers had fallen, those who wake up very early and climbed the hills would alert those who are still on the way even when they are about a kilometer away from the base of the hill. This was also the case when they had not fallen::
There were several benefits of this exercise among them include keeping fit especially when the grasshoppers had fallen, waking up early, establishment of friends as well as socializing and unity promotion.

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