Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow
My mother was in charge of three huts at Qunu. As I remember, these were always
filled with
the babies and children of my relatives. In fact, I hardly recall any
moment as a child
when I was alone.
In African culture
,
the sons
and daughters
of
one's aunts
or uncles are brothers and sisters, not cousins. We have no half-
brothers or half-sisters or
aunts or uncles. My
mother's
sister is my mother
; my
uncle's son is my brother; my
brother's child is my son, my daughter.
Of my mother's three huts, one was used for cooking, one for sleeping and one for
storage. In the hut in which we slept,
there was no furniture in the
proper sense.
We slept on mats and sat on
the ground. I did not discover pillows until much later
.
My mother cooked food in a three-legged iron pot on an open fire in the
centre
of
the hut or outside. Everything we ate, we grew and made ourselves
.
From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veldt, playing and fighting
with the other boys of the village. At night, I shared my food and blanket with these
same boys.
I was no more than five when I started looking after sheep and calves in the fields.
It was in the fields that I learned how to knock birds out of the sky with a slingshot.

State the main idea of the first paragraph of the passage