One of the central elements of the condition of Black youth in the U.S. is that they are being socialized in a society full of dehumanizing systems. Pop culture, public education, politics and a ...

So how do these rites of passage fit in with modern Western ideas about child abuse and human rights? The death of a South African teenager during initiation rituals - the ninth such fatality this ...

What may seem strange to one person is an everyday event for the next. To say something is “normal” or “abnormal” depends on your perception and the level of knowledge you have of the subject.

In the old days, in parts of Africa, a teenage boy was given a spear ... The point is, a boy had to perform a rite of passage before he could be called a man. But perhaps the days of hunting ...

Some Africans condemn their own indigenous practices because they have embraced western culture and its notions of civilised behaviour. The Europeans who colonised South Africa used Christianity, ...

Ghanaian playwright Latif Abubakar has called on filmmakers to move beyond the usual stories centred on love, crime, and ...

thousands of Kenyan boys mark the transition from childhood to adulthood through a sacred rite of passage, circumcision. It's a tradition deeply rooted among tribes in the East African country.

He was Michel Onomo, the dancer performing “Rite de passage || solo 2,” by the French ... share an interest in the crossover between hip-hop and African diasporic ritual practice.