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War between church, tradition rages on 100 years later

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 Historical records indicate that elders' caucuses were first banned around 1900 to prevent them from becoming competing centres of power against the government. [iStockphoto]

Thousands of teenage boys are recovering in barracks under the hawkish eyes of bible-clutching elders to be schooled on complexities of adulthood.

The boys have been undergoing rigorous training of how to transit from boys to men, after being subjected to a "physical rite of passage."

In church-organised circumcision programmes, initiates are charged between Sh7,000 to Sh40,000 for circumcision, while it costs Sh1,000 for a cut organised by traditional elders.

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