Our main topics to be. Initiation rites before we talk about lets look at what some young men have to go through the numbers may not be as high but this suffer mental and physical pain across africa different cultures smog a transition from boyhood to manhood initiation rituals in south africa many young men lose their lives thats a result. Close to the fall river early in the morning in these initiation students practice traditional chants it is a highly secretive process we are lucky out of 20 students these 5 and their future are willing to talk they perform a cleansing ritual in the river every morning these schools are infamous for their allegedly brutal methods but this young initiate shows no signs of fear. You see some guys are scared but thats only because other people things so some have this fear but because this is our culture i fear nothing i feel like most of the boys here have to go through it. The traditional. And pretty ethnic groups believe a boy can only become a man