Facing the knife, the Tiriki way

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In Hamisi constituency, a new age set of young Tiriki men are set to join the ranks of grown men in society. The young men are graduating from their elaborate inititation rites, which include the traditional circumcision rites. However, as NTVs Brenda Mulinya reports, turning from boys to men involves some of the communitys best-kept secrets.

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• Kenya
• community
• Tiriki
• ethnic
• circumcision
• rite
• tradition
• culture
• luhya
• rites

[shikurilwanga]

ha-ha! traditions are not bad if they teach values, however if you take that as an avenue to further your voodooism n blak magic then to hell with it...... take them to hospital.

[robertmalenya]

you guys are lying am a tiriki we only circumcise men i was circumcised traditionally as a rite of passage and not with a knife but with a surgical blade, you need to be updated stop reading from archives.

[Kenedi105]

@toyman400 actually they do tht to

im against both of them tho

[euromessage]

Thank you for

sharing this video with me. It gives some perspective to my own small video about the Tiriki inigiration dance produced for KEEP in Kakamega Rain Forest, Kenya some years ago.

Erik

euromessage

[euromessage]

Thank you for

sharing this video with me. It gives some perspective to my own small video about the Tiriki inigiration dance produced for KEEP in Kakamega Rain Forest, Kenya some years ago.

Erik

euromessage

[CutHardXXX]

I am circumcised and I beleieve in it.

[shanyisa]

oh all my brothers did this ohhhh

[toyman400]

hey I am a man and I don't need to be circumcised to become a man so why say they need to cut the foreskin off to become a man, do they cut females so to be come females NO THEY DON'T

[XLnotsofunny]

wait a minute......do they use the same freakin knife on every guy without the proper disinfectant.......infectious diseases like aids......

[xlupine]

"communities that do not circumcise experience high casualties"

No, the western country with the highest HIV infection rate is the western country with the highest circumcision rate: the USA.