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Sep 6 2010, Ofentse

In the windblown hills of the Eastern Cape, boys from the Xhosa tribe are in a hurry to be men.

At 20, Siphelele Zweni was ridiculed in his village. They called him nofontyela, a non-man, who’d gone too long without his coming-of-age circumcision.

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Rose Ng'ang'a, Nairobi
I find this rather disturbing though I would not be quick to make any tangible comment and this to me is the stuff nightmares are made of. I read this story in one of...
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We have to wait another 2 weeks to celebrate Kalipuja, but a boy was killed in human sacrifice ritual at the Mahakali Mandir (temple) in Chandrapur. This is profound...
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