I want you to be a child who is going to help us in what we do, help make our nation great. This is what you tell the child. Then you sing some songs in praise of the child. The term comes from association with the English. So people should give the child something so that the child will have a good start in life.
People bring the child gifts, especially money.
Then there is a big feast with singing and dancing. Every adult at the celebration drinks a little of the corn liquor to testify that the ceremony has been performed in the correct manner, and that everybody is sealed by the ceremony. You know that this is your child, and the child knows that it is part of the community and has responsibility to that community.