Circumcision has been practiced in Africa to initiate
adolescent boys into adulthood from time immemorial.
Communities with a history of traditional
circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa are gradually
taking up clinical circumcision and yet still
adhering to traditional circumcision processes. By
use of both ethnographic and descriptive means, this
book explains modernity factors that determine
choosing between traditional and clinical
circumcision. Parents and their sons consider cost of
circumcision and health concerns; HIV infection
threat, safety, complications and other...