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Where people don’t shave their pubes until burial rituals are complete

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For some of the major sub tribes of the Mijikenda community in coastal Kenya, the funeral is only the beginning of the wait for a very ancient ceremony popularly known as msiba.

The msiba is a ritual which commemorates the life of the deceased and celebrates their passage as their spirit reunites with the ancestors.

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