To demonstrate power, energy and courage, in order to be considered as an adult, is one of the most beautiful traditions - not only in Africa but world-wide, as Jérôme Ségur's exciting video documentation "Becoming a man in Melanesia" shows. In Africa, in the Mande language area this is called "Kamalenya".
...an intoxicating battle of rhythms, in which not only the musicians are supposed to fall into a trance.