Initiation of 

Boys and Girls

Jomo Kenyatta


Introduction
Name of the Custom
Preparing for Initiation
The Great Ceremonial Dance (Matuumo)
How the girl is operated on
Healing of the Wound

From the book cover:

Jomo Kenyatta, the grandson of a Kikuyu medicine man, was among the foremost leaders of African nationalism and one of the great men at the modern world. In the 1930’s he studied at the London School of Economics and took his degree in anthropology under Bronislaw Malinowski, one result of which is this now famous account of his own Kikuyu tribe.

Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind Facing Mount Kenya is not only a formal study of life and death, work and play, sex and the family in one of the greatest tribes of contemporary Africa, but a work of considerable literary merit. The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as precise as they are compassionate.

Reference:

Kenyatta, Jomo
1965 Facing Mt. Kenya. New York: Vintage Books. pp 125-149.