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Meghan Walker

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A Botched Circumcision Calls Attention To Kenyan Ritual

Saturday, September 06, 2014

NPR

By Meghan Walker

In August, about 5,000 boys in western Kenya were rounded up, brought into the forest and ritually circumcised.

They're members of the Bukusu tribe, and they were marking the transition from boyhood to manhood in the traditional way. The elders who performed the procedure used homemade knives and no anesthesia, ...