The initiations are largely designed to instruct initiates about behavior appropriate for men and women of reproductive age belonging to a specific c… - Lyn Wadley

It is a personal honour to be elected to the British Academy, but I particularly hope that my appointment will contribute towards raising the international profile of Wits University.

Sub-Saharan African rites of passage into adulthood are sometimes marked by gender-specific physical mutilations such as circumcision, dental modification or scarification, together with other forms of symbolic marking that invariably adopt a binary gender system as the norm.

I have dedicated my life to African archaeology because the deep past in Africa is everyone’s heritage and it must be protected.