These
pictures show frightened girls lined up before villagers in Kenya to be
circumcised - even though the brutal practice is now illegal in the country.
But in
many African tribes, traditions are more important than laws and circumcision
is considered a rite of passage that marks their transition into womanhood so
they can marry.
Reuters
photographer Siegfried Modola captured this ceremony in rural Kenya for four
teenage girls of the Pokot tribe, in Baringo County.
Draped in
animal skin and covered in white paint, the girls squat over large stones in
the remote village after being circumcised - a life-threatening custom banned
in the country three years ago.
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