During these three interrelated rites of passage, a group or age-set of Maasai boys pass together from being children to being morans (warriors), then adults and then elders. Enkipaata is a ...

Since the previous morning, the uncircumcised 14-year-old from the Bukusu tribe in western Kenya had ... Rift Valley and the climax of Shadrack’s passage to manhood—a passage crucial to ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

As young men and women return from their initiation schools (makolwane) after completing their rites of passage during December ... and other indigenous tribes. Teaching young people about ...

The tribe said the drilling could permanently damage its ancestral lands and waters in the Big Sandy River area near Wikeiup.

After the child naming ceremony, puberty rites are the next set of rituals of social status transformation which children undergo in Ghanaian culture. The most well preserved puberty rites are the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Some of the elders who attended the rite of passage ceremony at Mbale Municipality Grounds ...