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YAKOE(NIGERIA)
Index →Africa→Nigeria→ Yakoe
Featured: Badjju, Nupe, Hausa, Kadara, Kagoro, Efik, Tiv, Kanuri, Ijaw/ Ijo, Bini, Marghi, Jekri, Lala, Kofjar, Ibibio, Woodabe Fulani, Borroro Fulani, Ibo[Afikpo Igbo, Asaba Ibo], Rukuba, Irigwe, Yakoe, Igbira, Igala, Orri, Dakarkaki, Tuareg
Forde (1941 [1951:p13])[1] states that the night party,
attended from ages 11 to 12 is a recognised setting for a “first phase”
of sexual experience. States Forde (1940:p57)[2], “[a] period of sexual play
begins early in adolescence, for girls sometimes before menstruation begins,
and occurs in parties of girls and boys, usually differing little in age. Parents
exert little overt influence on the selection of partners by their sons and
daughters. Between the ages of 14 and 16 most girls have established a stable
relation with one lover, who at harvest time undertakes to make the customary
gifts and services […] to her and her parents during the ensuing year. These,
if acceptable to the parents, signify betrothal’. Clitoridectomy
is arranged at this or the next harvest, if she has not yet become pregnant.
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
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revised: Sept 2004
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