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...
Circumcision has been practiced in Africa to initiate adolescent boys into adulthood from time immemorial. Communities with a history of tradi...