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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."
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