Every mid-July, thousands of ethnic Kabye men aged 18 to 20 take part in the ancestral rite of passage in the west African nation's Kara region, hundreds of kilometres from the capital, Lome.

KARA, Aug 8 — The bare-chested young men emerged from a forest ceremony in northern Togo chanting war songs, ready for the initiation tradition of “Evala” in which they...

Every mid-July, thousands of ethnic Kabye men aged 18 to 20 take part in the ancestral rite of passage in the west African nation's Kara region, hundreds of kilometres from the…