In Northern Togo, Becoming a Man Involves the Evala, Traditional Wrestling Matches.

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In mid-July, as every year in this West African country, thousands of young men of the Kabye ethnic group, aged 18 to 20, participated in this ancestral tradition practiced in the Kara region, hundreds of kilometers from the capital, Lomé. They first took part in a ceremony during which they ate dog meat "for the first time" in their lives, Samah Achille Bidiwana, chief of the Tchitchao canton, told AFP. Then, three small scars were made with …