{"id":29886,"date":"2022-08-27T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala"},"modified":"2022-08-27T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T20:08:31","slug":"initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala","title":{"rendered":"Initiation ceremonies for girls should be discouraged-Sikawala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Lwiindi Gonde traditional Ceremony Organizing Committee Chairperson, Patrick Sikawala says some initiation ceremonies for girls should be discouraged as they contribute to early marriages and teenage pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sikawala says some initiation ceremonies such as \u2018Nkolola\u2019 of the Tonga people expose girls to issues of sexuality which in turn, put them at risk of getting pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, Mr. Sikawala said most initiation ceremonies compelled parents and guardians to shift the responsibility of counselling their children to traditional counsellors, when it was their duty to counsel them.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sikawala said initiation ceremonies were not necessary, as parents and guardians could still guide their children in a home set-up, without subjecting them to rites practiced during the ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents should counsel children from their homes and should not rely so much on counsellors who specialize in initiation ceremonies, if they expect positive behavioral change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sikawala further said other than initiation ceremonies, large church meetings which involved young people also resulted in some of them getting pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not just the initiation ceremonies. Even our church going youths are vulnerable when they go for meetings such as camp meetings, because they end up getting pregnant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sikawala noted that children\u2019s upbringing in modern society has changed as young people enjoy more rights than the youths in previous generations. He claimed that young people have the courage to challenge elders, parents and guardians since they are protected by human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYoung people nowadays do not listen to their elders. They are able to challenge us because they are protected by human rights. These human rights have spoiled our children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. The Lwiindi Gonde traditional Ceremony Organizing Committee Chairperson, Patrick Sikawala says some initiation ceremonies for girls should be discouraged as they contribute to early marriages and teenage pregnancies. Mr. Sikawala says some initiation ceremonies such as \u2018Nkolola\u2019 of the Tonga people expose girls to issues of sexuality which in turn, put them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,25,8,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-29886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Initiation ceremonies for girls should be discouraged-Sikawala - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Lwiindi Gonde traditional Ceremony Organizing Committee Chairperson, Patrick Sikawala says some initiation ceremonie ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Initiation ceremonies for girls should be discouraged-Sikawala\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Lwiindi Gonde traditional Ceremony Organizing Committee Chairperson, Patrick Sikawala says some initiation ceremonie ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-27T19:50:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-27T20:08:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_8-630a79a5ad5c4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"397\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Initiation ceremonies for girls should be discouraged-Sikawala\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-27T19:50:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-27T20:08:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_8-630a79a5ad5c4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/initiation-ceremonies-for-girls-should-be-discouraged-sikawala\",\"name\":\"Initiation ceremonies for girls should be discouraged-Sikawala - 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