Since the turn of the 1800s, male circumcision, or “Khukhwingila Imbalu” in Masabaland or Bugisu region, has been a fundamental part of the male initiation process into adulthood. Imbalu is the most ...

Culture. Sustaining an Imbalu ceremony is costly because its involves feeding guests, buying for them alcohol, hiring cultural bells and paying surgeons. The Imbalu initiates boys into what it takes ...

Music, dance, drama and poetry are important elements of ritual in African societies. Imbalu, the centuries-old circumcision ritual of Uganda's Bagisu people, is no different. When Bagisu boys between ...

Literally Imbalu (Ipalu) means 'big knife', the one used to cut the foreskin. Two dances are prominent in during Imbalu - Isonja and Inemba. Isonja is the pre-circumcision dance, where the boys tie ...

Three people were yesterday knocked dead by a speeding truck that rammed into an ‘Imbalu’ dance ceremony on the Sironko-Kapchorwa highway. Imbalu is a traditional dance that precedes a circumcision ...

During the eighth month of every even year, Mutoto becomes a Mecca of sorts for multitudes of Bamasaba, not only from the Bugisu region, but also from western Kenya. What brings the Bamasaba and the ...

Five people have died and eight others hospitalised with severe injuries after a speeding Fuso truck rammed into the kadodi dancers at Nangara Trading Centre in Kikholo Town Council in Bududa District ...

Music, dance, drama and poetry are important elements of ritual in African societies. Imbalu, the centuries-old circumcision ritual of Uganda's , is no different. When Bagisu boys between the ages of ...