Dear MEL Topic Readers
Police arrest 6 after a teenage boy died in
an adulthood initiation ritual in Kenya
Adulthood initiation is said to be a one-way bridge
from one’s youth to adulthood. It was a traditional ceremony designed to teach a
fifteen-year-old boy the customary values of his people, the Kikuyu, Kenya's
most populous ethnic group. The ritual was held during the school holidays. The
boy went on a trip to be bulled to harden him which seemed to have gone too
far. He was then circumcised, isolated from this family and found dead.
Although such initiation ritual has been
practiced for a very long time, deaths haven’t occurred often during or after
the ceremony.
The boy had good grades in school and wanted to
be a neurosurgeon.
Read the article and learn how a traditional
custom turned to be a fatal incident.
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