WAITING FOR THE YOUNG MEN: INITIATION In eastern Lesotho
they left for the mountains only to return three months later, transformed from boys into men. t
Every year, thousands of adolescents follow the sangomas, known as traditional healers, to venture into the Drakensberg mountains which extend for hundreds of kilometres between South Africa and Lesotho, in Southern Africa. The initiates will have to overcome difficult trials awaiting them. Then, they will be circumcised under the shade of the highest peaks of the Drakensberg. On their homecoming, they will have become worthy of being men and family fathers.
The boys
