ABSTRACT
Physical education and recreation would seem to be a simple matter among a people which spends so large a proportion of its time in out-of-doors occupations and one which, again, has almost universally good posture, and a large proportion of which is of good physique. Comparing the Ovimbundu with their neighbours to the north, the Ovimbundu are greatly superior both in physique and in posture. The content as well as the method of religious education should be rooted in Umbundu behaviour and attitudes. Much of the Umbundu traditional literature—proverbs, riddles, songs, and folk-tales–is well worth using at some place in the educational programme. In Umbundu social, educational, and economic life, and in the traditional literature, are many elements of worth which such a Youth Movement could easily utilize, inasmuch as it is not bound by the requirements of the formal school.
