Traditional Practice

Initiation practices might offer a moment of self-discovery for queer Xhosa men

Female genital mutilation is still practiced in Somaliland. But women’s coalitions are working to change this.

Hilary Burrage explains how often women are left with the worst of choices in the world’s poorest communities.

Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove gives us a rare glimpse into a Shona ceremony that transformed his deceased father into one of the living-dead.

How far can artists go in satirising or sending up the powerful? Nickolaus Bauer reports on different value clashes over Brett Murray’s ‘The Spear’.

Circumcision without anaesthetic and in full view of friends and family is still the done thing in parts of Uganda.