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Blend of culture, modernity as 100 initiated

President William Ruto at the Kalenjin rite of passage ceremony for boys on December 16, 2023, at Karen in Nairobi, where over one hundred boys graduated. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

It was a day to prove traditions and modernity can thrive together.

Fathers came dressed in dark suits, white shirts, red ties and cowboy hats; while their sons, the initiates, wore maroon blazers over black polo necks and trousers.

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