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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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