How to back wrap (bamboo) a baby with a wrapper | My Gambia | My Magazine

Wrapper offers comfort and creates free movement for women. Women will always wear wrappers when doing household chores. They will also use the wrapper to strap their children on their backs while working. Strapping a child on the back with a wrapper is believed to make them blessed and strong when they grow up. It is also a form of protection for the child against evil spirits. It is said that when a woman carries a child on their back, no wicked eye can cast evil on the child.

Gambians use a popular saying when they want to let a person know not to take them for a fool, and it goes like this; ˝My mother did not strap me on her back with a tissue pepper˝. This saying has a lot of meaning attached to it. It shows that a child was well protected by their mother, and the mother has never allowed the child to be exposed to danger. It also shows that the child, even when they grow up, the blessing of wrapper still follows them.

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