Xhosa men don't look back in South Africa - vpro Metropolis 2010

In South Africa, Lwandi visits his Xhosa brothers who - just like him - have to undergo a two month ritual to become adults. Covered in white clay to fight off evil spirits, they among other things undergo a circumcision.

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