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Initiation of Fulani boys in Adamawa

Notes and NewsInitiation of Fulani boys in Adamawa. 1 The circumcision rites practised on Fulani boys take place once a year, in the dry season usually soon after the Guinea-corn harvest, if there are boys in the village of the right age (in most districts between 7 and 10).A shelter is erected for the purpose, and the floor covered with sand.The boys are then called in one by one, starting with the youngest.After the operation they remain for four or five days in the shelter, and are then taken at dawn two or three miles away from the village to a chosen spot where there is a large tree.In th…