Xhosa women sing and dance while welcoming home young male family members, who have spent one month in an initiation camp

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Xhosa women sing and dance while welcoming home young male family members, who have spent one month in an initiation camp, where they have been circumcised and initiated into manhood. The township Khayalethu South in Knysna, South Africa, in December 2006.

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Location: Khayalethu South Township, Knysna, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Photo credit: © Anders Ryman / Alamy / Afripics
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