Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government says 11 young men have died so far this year in botched circumcision rituals that have killed hundreds in past years. The government said in a ...

Traditional rite-of-passage ceremonies in South Africa left 32 boys dead and more than 150 hospitalised, local authorities said Tuesday, as the annual initiation season drew to a close. Most of the ...

It's been nearly three weeks since 18-year-old Onke Komsana from the rural village of Sithebe in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape left home for initiation school - the rite of passage for Xhosa boys ...

"Spectacular Display: The Art of Nkanu Initiation Rituals" includes carved wall panels, masks in wood and fiber, and sculptures in the round, used in the initiation rites of the Nkanu peoples of ...

"Written by David Binkley, Ed DeCarbo and Christine Mullen Kreamer. Edited by Nancy Eickel."-- P. 8. Pamphlet to accompany exhibits "Making the grade: art of initiation" Nov. 11, 2001-May 5, 2002 and ...

Water is a scarce commodity in much of Africa, particularly in southern Africa. This is well symbolised in the name of the Botswana national currency, pula (rain). When tragedies like flooding and ...

Foreword -- African religions -- Vodun -- For the Bamileke, death does not exist -- The Hogon foregoes physical contact -- Blue, the color of ritual death -- Sexual intercourse as mystical expression ...

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday called on African leaders to create a united front against human trafficking and ritual killings to protect the people, punish the ...

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