Young men go out at night to sneak into girls' windows to engage in sexual activities.
Strategies vary from sneaking in the door to climbing up the side of a house to enter a window or even dropping in from the roof.
Strict parents chase the intruder or threaten him with marriage or a stick while liberal ones pretend to be asleep even if they know the prowler is around.
Bastardy and single motherhood were less of a problem in the traditional setting with extended families and grandparents always around to look after the child.
However, the growing culture of nuclear families, the requirement for marriage certificates, requirement of a father to register the child as citizen, the increasing practice of western styled wedding culture are leading to an increased stigma for single motherhood.
Modern education and the literature associated with it are spreading fast and with them a worldview and culture heavily influenced by a Western, Christian moral ethos.
The use of a vernacular word Bomena, not ‘night hunting’, a term loaded with ethnocentrism and ignorance of the custom, tells a lot of this original village ethnography.
The current discourse and understanding of Bomena, according to the author, are naïve, biased and misrepresented, heavily influenced by changing values especially among the urban societies.