- Ritual
- 約40日間の少年加入儀礼
- Region and community
- ギニア／スス（Soussou）社会
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Trial or training / New social responsibilities
- Legal age of majority
- Guinea18 yearsGuinea · Calendar unspecified · Adult protection rules apply under Article 578 and the following provisions. · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
In this Soussou initiation in Guinea, boys spend about forty days away from the village, learning through songs, verbal contests, and instruction from sponsors and older men. When they return, they are received among the men of the community. An ethnography published in 2005 follows the boys through the initiation and their return. It is unclear how the rite has continued since then.
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