Note: FGM/C is more prevalent in the southern zones than in the northern zones. States with the highest prevalence Osun (77%), Ebonyi (74%) , Ekiti (72%), Imo (68%) and Oyo (66%) Health Organization WHO, is “any partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or any other injury to the female genital organ for…
You have claimed superiority even when you have none Every one worships at your feet They call you god But deep down you know your acts are ungodly Man UP When they are infibulated in tears I hear it is only so you can infiltrate her At a rate that pleases you Not looking after…
Held in captivity and tied with the trust she had in you Trapped in between your legs with no show of love You feigned passion yet you watch on You watch on while she is getting cut for no just cause Her cries piercing my heart. My heart, her cries puncture The pain of seeing…
The day Folake, 13, was circumcised, she had no idea what was about to happen. She had gone to bed the previous evening only to be woken in the dead of the night by a loud bang on the door of the room where she and her 10-year-old sister slept. The room was in inky…
Posted on May 23, 2012 by womenleadingchange By Kezia Bianca- YWCA of Kenya Kezia Bianca My name is Keziah Bianca, I am 22 years old and work at the YWCA of Kenya – Kisii branch. Kisii is a place renowned for practicing female genital mutilation and as a girl who grew up here, I was…
1. “And yet, despite repeated assurances that women aren’t particularly sexual creatures, in cultures around the world men have gone to extraordinary lengths to control female libido: female genital mutilation, head-to-toe chadors, medieval witch burnings, chastity belts, suffocating corsets, muttered insults about “insatiable” whores, pathologizing, paternalistic medical diagnoses of nymphomania or hysteria, the debilitating scorn…
