As a young Maasai moran, Jeremiah Kutanya, had sworn never to marry a girl who is not circumcised.<br /><br />He was determined to continue nurturing cultural practices he learnt from his father and grandfather during his transition to manhood.<br /><br />It was very important for him to marry a girl who had undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).<br /><br />“The work of a moran is to continue the traditions. We were trained on how to perpetuate what our fathers and our forefathers were doing. Marrying a girl who is circumcised was our tradition and we in Maasai stick to our practices. I did not want to violate our culture.”<br /><br />“That’s why I planned to marry a girl who is cut,” says the 26-year-old now a university graduate.<br /><br />David Sayianka, a community elder spent most of his 63 years ensuring that no girl passed teenage without undergoing the cultural cut.
