This article seeks to explore the Komba traditional rites practised by the VaRemba people of the Shona-Karanga ethnic group in Zimbabwe. The “Komba rite” is intended to move a mature girl (mhandra) from the state of girlhood to that of womanhood. It is also meant to initiate vashenji (uncircumcised non-VaRemba) women who marry VaRemba men into their female traditions and customs. While Christia...