Decorations play a great deal on people's day to day activities. For instance, East African women from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, like wearing lesos (kanga) and in most cases they buy the leso that are encircled with writings that seem personal to the people. Thus important to know the details of
personalized ornaments.
If we take for example, when an East African woman feels sad or bad about her neighbours success, the successful neighbour might buy a leso that is enscription with some writing such as "mwenye wivu ajinyonge, " meaning "If you feel jealous, commit suicide". This type of enscription tends to teach people the good morals of the society and especially enabled people to mind their own businesses.
Most people live in houses that are majorly decorated by ornaments such as photos of ancient places, object, and even people. These decorations make the house to be more attractive and create a good environment for people to live in. Sometimes this decoration makes the house to look prettier and welcoming.
In traditional African Society, there was the use of various types of ornaments such as leading of the body to people painting themselves with drawings of things they like or love doing, for example, football because they love soccer and even painting their hair to bring about a certain look.
Sometimes decorations or ornaments can be used to identify things or even people. In the Maasai culture, most Maasai people wear bangles and even necklaces which are used to identify their community. Also, some wear to identify different celebrations like circumcision, weddings, and even burial enhancing their cultural practices.
The living standards of people can also be seen to be improved by the fact that people also acquire ornaments such as medals gold, bronze or silver. This is acquired through participation in both funding and non-funding activities such as athletics, the best performance in schools or even achievements in work place. Thus, the decorations tend to promote the living standard of people in the world that is those interested parties.
They greatly believe in the power of beauty, and this is why they decorate their gods with expensive and beautiful ornaments. People tend to measure the wealth of others through the value of decorations they posses. This is done by assumptions of the value of the adornments they wear. During weddings, it is of such owner for one to wear such kind of decorations in order to attract their guests, friends and all the interested parties.
In most communities ornaments serves the best role of raising capital. For instance, in the Kalenjin community, most Kalenjins know how to run that is they are athlete's thus after winning a race they are paid for their participation and most importantly given medals that act as a future reference to them. This decorations in a way or sometimes act as motivators for the young children interested in the success of their parents and in a way also they tend to outline the success level or achievement level of the involved people.Conclusively then the importance of personal adornments in ones life.