enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Circumcision in Africa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_in_Africa

    Circumcision in Africa, and the rites of initiation in Africa, as well as "the frequent resemblance between details of ceremonial procedure in areas thousands of kilometres apart, indicate that the circumcision ritual has an old tradition behind it and in its present form is the result of a long process of development."

  3. Ulwaluko - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulwaluko

    Ulwaluko, traditional circumcision and initiation from childhood to adulthood, is an ancient initiation rite practised (though not exclusively) by the Xhosa people, and is commonly practised throughout South Africa. The ritual is traditionally intended as a teaching institution, to prepare young males for the responsibilities of manhood. [1]

  4. History of circumcision - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_circumcision

    Circumcision likely has ancient roots among several ethnic groups in sub-equatorial Africa, Egypt, and Arabia, though the specific form and extent of circumcision has varied. Ritual male circumcision is known to have been practiced by South Sea Islanders, Aboriginal peoples of Australia, Sumatrans, and some Ancient Egyptians. [1]

  5. In a remote Ugandan region, a sacred circumcision ritual ...

    www.aol.com/news/remote-ugandan-region-sacred...

    The dancers shook their hips to the beat of drummers who led the way, anticipating the start of mass circumcision among the Bamasaaba people of Uganda’s mountainous east. The king, known as the ...

  6. In a remote Ugandan region, a sacred circumcision ritual ...

    lite.aol.com/news/world/story/0001/20240811/e2a...

    The tribal initiation of boys into adulthood has long been controversial in African countries such as South Africa, where incidents of botched, deadly circumcisions among Xhosa-speaking people have inspired campaigns for safe clinical circumcision.

  7. Religion and circumcision - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_circumcision

    The Xhosa Tribe from the Eastern Cape in South Africa has a circumcision ritual. The ceremony is part of a transition to manhood. It is called the Abakwetha - "A Group Learning". A group of normally five aged between 16 and 20 go off for three months and live in a special hut (sutu). The circumcision is the climax of the ritual.

  8. Circumcision - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision

    Circumcision in Africa, and the rites of initiation in Africa, as well as "the frequent resemblance between details of ceremonial procedure in areas thousands of kilometres apart, indicate that the circumcision ritual has an old tradition behind it and in its present form is the result of a long process of development." [171]

  9. Imbalu - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbalu

    Mutoto Circumcision Site. Imbalu is a public circumcision ceremony practiced by the Bamasaba people of Uganda. [1] It takes place at the Mutoto cultural site (also called Mutoto cultural ground) near Mbale in eastern Uganda. [2] It is mostly active in the 8th month of every even year.