Knobkerrie

[2] The name has been extended to similar weapons used by the native peoples of Australia, the Pacific islands, and other places,[3] and was also used in the British army.

[4] Outside Africa, the British called their trench clubs knobkerries during World War I, though their form was often not traditional.

[8][9][10] The weapon was used in No Man's Land by the poet Siegfried Sassoon as relayed in the Sherston trilogy, his pseudonymous autobiography.

[12][13] Knobkerries are still widely carried, especially in rural areas, while in times of peace it serves as a walking-stick, sometimes ornamental.

The molamu is an indicator of one's adult male status along with the Basotho blanket seana marena, and are visual expressions of both practical and esoteric Sesotho ideals.

The molamu is also used to teach initiates the methods of "ho ya ka lanwa", which is a historical Sesotho martial art.

[18] The molamu is also used to bind empowering medicines, or moriana, to the staff, which affects the "seriti" which is the character or spirit of the owner.

[18] Following an initiate's public introduction as a functioning member of Basotho adult society the molamu is typically stored in the ceiling of one's home, and represents the physical presence of the unseen.