Ulwaluko
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Ulwaluko is a traditional initiation and rite of passage practised by the Xhosa people, and is commonly practised throughout South Africa. The ritual is traditionally intended as a teaching institutio
Abakhwetha (group of initiates)
Xhosa initiates after circumcision ritual
Xhosa people
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The Xhosa people are an ethnic group in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho. They are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa and are native speakers of the isiXhosa language
Ulwaluko
…Ulwaluko is a traditional initiation and rite of passage practised (though not exclusively) by the Xhosa people, and is commonly practised throughout South Africa. The ritual is traditionally intended as a teaching institution, to prepare young males for the…
Xhosa graduates at Zonnebloem College in 1860, Cape Town, Cape Colony
Xhosa village in Eastern Cape.
An illustration of a group of Xhosa people by Thomas Baines (illustrated in 1848).
Xhosa spearman