- Ritual
- 7年周期の男子加入儀礼
- Region and community
- カメルーン・ムダン（Moudang）社会／Kaélé
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Trial or training
- Legal age of majority
- Cameroon18–21 depending on applicable legal system (21 in Francophone civil law; 18 reported in Anglophone common law)Cameroon · Civil Code Article 488 specifies 21. The age of 18 for Anglophone jurisdictions is reported in legal research. · Law and supporting sources 1 · Law and supporting sources 2 · Law and supporting sources 3
About the rite
At Kaélé in Cameroon, more than one thousand Moudang youths completed a forty-five-day initiation in 2025. Shared residence and instruction prepared the cohort for adult membership. Cameroon Tribune documented the closing ceremony on 9 August.
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