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

The initiations are largely designed to instruct initiates about behavior appropriate for men and women of reproductive age belonging to a specific community

The best way to preserve our heritage for future generations is to teach young people about it and involve them in the process of acquiring such knowledge for themselves

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.