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missionaries established Bible schools and
attempted to end old
practices such as
Bogwera (the tribe's
traditional initiation ceremony into manhood) and
Bojale (a...
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through bogwera (the tribe's
traditional initiation ceremony into manhood) with
members of his
mephato (age regiment). Historically,
bogwera entailed...
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Journal of Ethnology. 15 (4): 101–108. ISSN 0379-8860. Morton, Fred (2011). "
Bogwera and Mephato".
Botswana Notes and Records. 43: 38–51. ISSN 0525-5090. JSTOR 23237955...
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reinstating many
traditional practices such as polygyny, rainmaking, and
bogwera.
Sebele II
continued his father's
challenge to the
London Missionary Society...
- endor****t of un-Christian
traditional practices such as
polygamy and
bogwera. This
group was
supported by the
London Missionary Society, whom Sechele...
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Balete tribe, as it
revived its
dormant tradition of male initiation,
Bogwera,
under the
guidance of its
first ever
female Paramount Chief Mosadi Seboko...
- and
graduation from
initiation schools in
setswana known as
bojale and
bogwera. In some
parts of Botswana, the
ethnic groups still use
letsoku to cover...
- Botswana, and he
reversed the tribe's
rules against polygyny, rainmaking, and
bogwera.
Sebele angered the
London Missionary Society further by
allowing cir****cision...
- an
autobiographical praise poem, or leina, for
himself as part of the
bogwera coming-of-age rite. A
collective poem
would also be
written for the entire...
