By Elimu Assistant Team 
Explain the role of the sponsor during traditional African circumcision ceremonies
- They offer guidance and counseling to the candidates
- They educate the candidates on their new duties/and responsibilities as adults
- They give candidates instructions in sex education
- They encourage the candidates to face the operation with courage
- They give moral/physical support during the operation
- Act as a link between the candidates and their families
- They nurse the initiated back to health
- They play the. role of a mentor/father/mother/god-father/god-mother to the initiated
- They ensure that the initiated are protected/well cared for
