ABSTRACT
Now that we have grasped the sociological principles of the filling of the storehouse, the dodige bwayma, we must resume the trend of our narrative. We left the crops arranged in heaps in front of the storehouses, to which they had been carried with much pomp and circumstance. Now the taytu has to be stowed away in the storehouse, a process quickly finished but of momentous importance. Taytu, the pre-eminent, the staple food, is the basis of tribal enterprise; it can be transformed into objects of permanent wealth, by the simplest form of capitalising, that of feeding the workers; it can be kept and paid out for services, thus giving power to those who possess it (cf. Part I, Sec. 10). Therefore it is the foundation of native expansion, wealth and power that is being stored away in the act of filling the bwayma (storehouse); it is the bwayma that makes the accumulation and preservation of wealth possible. Hence the bwayma is a permanent centre of interest as well as the centre of the activities we are about to witness.
