Kara, Togo, July 24, 2026 (AFP) - Wrestling to become a man in Togo's ancestral rite of passage

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2026-07-24

The bare-chested young men emerged from a forest ceremony in northern Togo chanting war songs, ready for the initiation tradition of "Evala" in which they wrestle to become men. 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 (miles) from the capital, Lome. And authorities hope it will soon be recognised by UNESCO as part of To......

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