Teranga · Hospitality
Teranga is a custom of hospitality, where guests are treated with respect and generosity. The custom involves offering food, drink, and shelter to guests, and making them feel welcome and at home.
The names it answers to
- TerangaWolof
What happens
- 1
Greeting
The host greets the guest with a warm welcome and offers them a place to sit.
- 2
Offering Food and Drink
The host offers the guest traditional food and drink, such as tea and rice.
- 3
Conversation and Sharing
The host and guest engage in conversation and share stories, and the host makes the guest feel welcome and at home.
WHY
The Teranga custom of hospitality is done to show respect and generosity to guests.
It is a way to make guests feel welcome and at home, and to build strong relationships with the community.
WHYs are plural by design: your family may hold another. Dispute or add below; disagreement is recorded, never erased.
Who practices it
Provenance
- generated: 2026-07-05
- source: LLM aggregation pipeline (llama-3.3-70b-versatile via Groq, 2026-07-05); unverified, awaiting community affirmation.
This entry is a hypothesis awaiting its people. If your family does it differently, that difference is exactly what we want recorded.
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