Wrestling, scars and tradition: Togo's Evala rite of passage

IOL · Published 1h ago

Every mid-July, thousands of ethnic Kabye men aged 18 to 20 take part in the ancestral rite of passage in the west African nation's Kara region, hundreds of kilometres from the capital, Lome.

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