The Masaai Age-set

The Masaai Age-set

The Masaai Age-set

This is the central unit of governance in the Masaai community. It starts once a child is born. Once born, the child after three months is named. Immediately after birth, a child is not fully accepted into the community because iof the high infant mortality rate. If it is a boy, from an early age, it starts looking after goats and calve. Most of the life of a boy is spent playing with other boys. A boy child was highly regarded than a girl child in the community. The girl child was taught how to help its mother around the home with cooking, cleaning fetching water and firewood, milking and building the shelters they lived in.

Once they boy child got to the age of around 13 to 25 depending on the last initiation ceremony, they were circumcised. The circumcision ceremony was a very painful experience that involved cutting the foreskin of the penis with a very sharp knife. Make shift bandages made from cow hide would be used to prevent excessive bleeding. No anesthetic was used in the process. The boy was supposed to stay firm and not show ant sign of fear or pain during the process. If he did show fear or pain, this was a disgrace to his family.

After the initiation, the boys would be taken to a manyatta build by there mothers but had no security wall around it. This was to emphasize on there role as the village protectors. Now they have become junior morans. The healing process takes around three months. During this time and for the next eight months, they only wear black clothes. During the next initiation process, these junior morans become junior elders and proceed on to become senior elders.

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