Government To Circumcise 500,000: My Story Of Circumcisions

I read in newspaper they say goverment want to circumcise 500,000 Men. It remembers me when i finish 8, i go to secondary school called Kagumo high without circumcision. So, boys who are big were at form 3 and 4 so they beat us and pull our penises infront of people. One boy ask you to remove clothes then take your penis and pull you all over muhoya hse as circumcised boys cheer on. Then we get all socks and clothes to wash untill we get circumcised. So, when i go for holiday on april i tell father, i want circumcision. I am now big and student say they will circumcise me if i go back kihii.

So father say ok. We call dance at home and all big boys who circumcised come to dance. very early tomorow, i go to face knife. The circumsiser man tell me' wanjohi remove your trouser. I remove half. he say 'dont be sirry. i say all. Feeling ashamed i remove.


He take my penis and say, wanjohi, you will fill pain because your penis is big. He removes needle and injects at the side. it is very pain. He takes another needdle and injects again. Again, like he want me to fell pain , he injects 3times! The man that takes me there (mutiri) say, dont cry, if you cry you not man. So i terorate. Then he ask, you want to circumsise Kikuyu or english? i say kikuyu. He take my foreskin and looks to see where to cut. Then, one time, pap, he cut the whole foreskin and then looks for threads to stitch. We thn go home.


When we reach home, pain starts to come. Too much pain. I walk like criple bending so that no material touches my penis. We meet boys in my thingira and they start give advise. They ask 'wanjohi who is your father'


I say Githinji. they slap me hard and tell me the man that take me to cirmcusise is now my father. Then they call me: 'wanjohi'

i say 'uyu haha' They beat me again and say, from now, you is not wanjohi. you is 'Kirui kia ngoma' (means, circumsised of devil). So when they call ' wanjohi' i say 'ndietagwo wanjohi, njitaguo kirui kia ngoma' (meaning, i is not wanjohi. my name is 'Circumcised of Satan') They would then rename the my bed. everything in the thingira given new name. Including the legs of a stool and table.

Tomorrow, they bring girls to my cube. They tell the girl to put legs apart and i see pantie. my penis stands and start cracking. I feel pain so i tell one man to give me cold water in bottle, i touch it on my penis and it stops standing. But blood come out. This happen many time every day and for two week when i remember the pantie i see, the penis must stand and put cold bottle on my penis to stop standing.

The boys ask for uji, one kibuyu full. They ask me to drink all. They give me many food. If i refuse, they beat me. That was very bad. But i come out a man who is strong and learn our language habits.

Now, i feel for the 500,000 Men. Circumcision is not JOKE!!! They will feel MORE pain if their penis stand before it heal. If you are not circumcise, please you better run away. it pains more than any other pain. I woud never recomend circumsion for anyone that has seen naked women, because, when you think of naked women, you will bleed and you will never HEAL!!!

Yours Wanjohi wa Kigogoine.