What I know about my generations (90s) and up to the millennium in my similar environment, we went and negotiated it with our fathers (or uncles). If you grew up in Dagoretti area, you said "I want to go to Rufus:" If you grew in Ngong, "I want to go to Mwangi."
There was a rite to pass into true childhood at age 5. A rite to pass into young warrior (circumcision), a rite to become a young man who was allowed to marry and father children (bloody expensive), a rite to "age" a man whose kids were of "circumcisable"...
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A rite for a man whose children were now men with their own families...at this crap cost material things. NO to mention that there were also rites for girls and women. Just staying alive and functioning appropriately in society in the precolonial context was bloody expensive.
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