Bukut


  • Photographer
    diana bagnoli
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    diana bagnoli
  • Date of Photograph
    august 2016

The Casamance is the southern and more animistic area of Senegal, here people have a strong faith in God and the spirits of nature. Bukut it's a men's secret initiation. All the men of the same tribe have to go into the forest to endure one month of rituals, physical tasks and survival techniques without absolutely any contact with civilization, women and uninitiated men. Four of them died and where buried secretly in the forest this year. The event, which only happens once every 30 years in each tribe, is designed to turn boys, children and men into real men, they will return initiated at their own home, blessed and purified. What happens in the holy forest it's sworn to secrecy and nobody, except initiated men, can't know about it.

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