For a veeery long time I have observed the insults our brothers from coz of the fact that they are not cut. For those of us who underwent the real cut, we don’t have much to say, like they say a tiger does not pronounce it’s tigritude, it pounces. The loud mouths who hull insults at our brothers were simply separated from their foreskins in the local clinic.
In the next few days I am going to educate you guys about the traditional circumcision ceremony of the Bukusu. Today I will talk about the foreskin itself. For purposes of this esay, Omusinde = the uncirmcised.
The nature of the foreskin of a Musinde will determine the style of circumcision. There are two types, the open and the closed. The closed looks like one end of a wrapped sweet. The open has the tip of the glans exposed, the Bukusu usually refer to such people as having “an eye”. On the night before the cut, the circumciser or his agent is allowed to look at the penis of the candidates so he can determine the type of cut. The closed one does pose any challenges because it is usually done by pulling the foreskin to the desired length then chopping it off with the sharp knife this will usually come off with the inner foreskin, a smaller piece of the inner foreskin that remains is then cut off. The open one is done by doing a vertical cut on the upper side of the penis to the desired length then doing a round cut that you would do when cutting an avocado into two. The same process is then repeated for the inner foreskin. The “doctors” usually ask a higher fee the open foreskin.
with traditional circumcision there is always the risk of botched circumcision how often does it happen and what measures are taken to ensure it’s not fatal.
…in defence of watu waku pelekwa ‘clinic’,
‘irua’(rite of passage) isnt just ‘kutwanga mtree ngeta na kuchonga’, so much went on during that time ‘unachongwa’. en as tm wa klist has alluded ‘isio kini’ ama aye
‘athoni’?