MAKA (CAMEROON

 

 

IndexAfricaCameroon → Maka

 

Featured: (Nso’, Beti / Eton, Maka, Etap, Pangwe / Fan, Baifa / Banen, Fali, Mouktélé, Bangwa, Bali


 

A “very old woman”, also a circumciser, would “instruct the girls as soon as they see their first menstruation cycle about the mystery of procreation, the duties and sanctity of motherhood” (Nkwi, 1981:p850)[1].

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Sept 2004

 



[1] Nkwi, P. N. (1981) The Maka life cycle, Anthropos 72:288-99