​Slice of Life: ‘I was afraid but ah, me, I’m now a man’

I really didn’t want to go to initiation school because I was scared. I heard that some people didn’t make it because the people running some of the schools aren’t skilled.

For a whole week before I went, I was stressed about it, thinking about the circumcision and that there’d be no real medicine to ease the pain.

But I thought about it again and realised that this is my culture and, for me to be a man, I needed to go – whether I liked it or not.