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Samburu girls still chained to cultural bondage

A beaded Samburu girl. [PHOTOS:  KIUNDU WAWERU/STANDARD]

By KIUNDU WAWERU

The Morans appear like glorious rainbows as shoulder to shoulder; they straighten to their full lengths and in choreographed slow movements chant circumcision songs.

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