Circumcision ceremony in the Budadiri village on the Mt. Elgon. It can take the whole week or longer. All adult residents of the village are involved into the celebrations.

The to the Bantu tribes belonging Bagisu people are one of the very few ethnic groups in Uganda, which practise circumcision. Only young boys between 15 and 19 years old are circumcised. By the neighboring tribe from the north part of Mt. Elgon, the Nilotic Sebei tribe, both sexes are circumcised.

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