Andries Ntuli

3 D Wooden sculpture

120 x 160 cm

Ubusoka

The word ubusoka is a Zulu word. It comes from the word "Amasoka" which mean the womanizers. In Sout Africa, especially in this Zululand, Isoka is an idea of manhood designed for men for their benefits. Isoka is a man who can express himself better in front of woman, a man with a good fashion sense and ultimately a smooth operator who can get with a lot of girls. They are the "players" and "casanovas" of our time. In most black communities, young men are taught to prove their manhood by being womanizers and in return they get the privilege to boost their ego's, especially by the older generation. Classic misogynist would label them as "real men" and would bash woman for doing the same by calling them names, woman who would find themselves in same situations were and still are labeled harlots.

In the olden days this was not always the case, young men had to go through specific rituals and procedures in order for them to be labeled as true man, as soon as they reach puberty years, boys would go through initiation, Ukusokwa, which was male circumcision. Although circumcision is one of the most commonly performed procedure in Africa, with a wide variation between the regions on the practice. It is a complex and haevily criticized practice that has received tons of backlashes in the recent years. In many African societies and among certain ethnic groups in other geographical regions, male circumcision is carried out for curtural reasons as an initiation ritual and rite of passage into manhood however anthropologists agree that amongst the Polynesians, Aborigines and Southern American tribes, circumcision probably started as a test of bravery and endurance, a ritual mutilation, a sacrificial spilling of blood rather than initial right it has become in recent centuries.

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