There is a tribe called Akha, they live in the border forest of Congo Brazzaville and the Central Africa Republic. The fathers are known to be the best Dad in the world because they spent most of their time looking after their children. They dedicate their time and energy to active fathering.
The lifestyle of Akha as a tribe has been drifted away from their traditional customs by the European colonialism.
It was gathered that the slave trade in the 18th century instigated the migration of many tribes into Akha lands. As time goes on, these tribes became connected with the Akha's.
In 19th century, Akha became the major elephant hunters providing tucks for the Ivory trade. Those tribes that came to settle with them in the 18th century became the middlemen during transactions.
Between 1910 to 1940, Akha lands were part of French Equatorial Africa and they instigated the affiliated tribe into production of rubbers by the colonists.
Subsequently, the labourers escaped into the forest owned by the Akha tribe whereby increasing demands for bush meat
To meet up with this demands, Akha tribe developed a more efficient and reliable means of net hunting to replace the previous traditional spear hunting or method.
The French in 1930s compelled Akha tribe to move into roadside villages but this did not ogur well with the French colonists as the Akha disobeyed and moved into the jungle with few of them joining the new settlements except for a few villages in Congo Brazza.
In today's world, economic diversification has triggered the Akha to further desist from their traditional customs. So, many Akha tribe now works in the Coffee plantation at their negbouring tribes community during the dry season instead of hunting.
A research was conducted by the kBritish National Information Center (BNIC) on fatherhood which was concluded that 156 cultures around the world found fathering hard and inferior status in most countries.
Hewlett said "Only 20% of cultures around the world promotes men's close relationships with infants, and only 5% with young children."
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