You know this guy Kumekucha had a very Twisted and convoluted article about Kalenjin Secrets. I took it upon myself to correct the wrong message that he   passed as solid truths! I Have noticed that a lot of people are very ignorant about KALENJIN culture. They tend to band the Kalenjin warriors with bandit groups like Mungiki and Jeshi la Mzee, Taliban etc. I refuse to let this fly.

 Kalenjin are amongst the most understated communities in Kenya. They like to keep a low profile but they have one of the most intriguing and organized societies that has surprisingly remained by and large intact post-colonially perhaps due to the fact that they don’t like to create a huff over nothing. You see this culture of humility even amongst our athletes. Kenyan athletes (mostly Kalenjin) are some of the world’s most reknown athletes yet they maintain simple and humble lifestyles that contrast the pomposity of the proud sports world.

 YATITET ab TARUSIEK Ceremony

Let me explain: For the last weeks of December every year all across Kalenjin country, young men all over Kalenjin country are going through initiation. Boys aged 12-18 are all expected to undergo this rite of passage, called NGETUNET.. City kids are often sent to villages like s since these initiations aren’t practiced as much in the city nowadays.

Different tribes have different traditions surrounding circumcision. (The most important part of the training is when the young men are circumcised.) For the Kalenjin , women aren’t allowed anywhere near the warriors, except to cook for them at night. But the LuyHa, another, allow women and children to attend ceremonies, even to watch the circumcision process. For Luyha and Kalenjin both, a young man who as much as flinches during the actual cutting, is made out to be a coward. (It’s OK to faint, though, as that is considered a response which you have no control over.)

At night, you can hear the warriors sing. Learning different tribal songs is a critical part of the initiation. There are some songs they the warriors will  never sing with women. And there are some of the teachings they’d never share with women, either.

The young men stay in the bush for up to a month. Other than learning songs and getting cut, they learn cultural things like how to help a cow give birth, how to kill snakes, and the various calls of the village. (For example, what the drum call sounds like when cows have been stolen, or a different call when someone’s been bitten by a snake. With cell phones being everywhere, I’m not sure how often the calls are still used around here, though.)

There are different groups that do the teachings during the initiation. The young men in this picture are from a group of 21 boys  who are being trained traditional style. other common  styles is the  Christian way of  being trained, too, but they don’t wear skins since the symbol of the skins is cultural .this Christian guys commonly called KIMUTAT cover themselves with bed sheets, instead, which look rather odd and are the LEAST respected Men of the men

During their initiation, the young men aren’t supposed to interact much with outsiders.

The Kalenjin ’s  quasi-Military Nature of circumsition  structure

Meenyjo confinement was first and foremost a military training affair. It used to take a whole year. Now we have adapted it to the school timetable and congested a 12-month course into a one-month course. Ours was the military clan of Pharaoh called Sebbeny.  Up until now the Kipsigiis are still in that mode, one is born into one of four military regiments that are hereditary. These are Kipkaygee, Ng’etunyo, Kebeeni and Kasaneet. During the passing out parade as men emerged from meenyjo they used to march in four columns, each called a kwaneet and each kwaneet belonged to one of the four poryeet (could this be what ends up in the west as parade?). Do not confuse this with pororyeet. Pororyeet is larger and may mean the ”larger house” where poryeet means just “house”. Remember during the passing out parade one held his unstrung bow but no arrows, Remember when soldiers  are passed out after army training  they  held a gun that had no bullets.

  Folks.. Thats it. am done.

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