Since the previous morning, the uncircumcised 14-year-old from the Bukusu tribe in western Kenya had been jingling a pair of feathered cowbells against metal braces lashed to his wrists.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Until the 1940s, the Bukusu dumped bodies of the dead in forests, believing that animals ...

In an interview with The Nairobian, Isaac Misiko, a 68-year-old Bukusu elder and traditional healer, says those who die by hanging themselves are whipped thoroughly “until tears roll down their ...