The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781472275844
  • 17 maart 2022
  • 240 pagina's
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By the Amref activist Nice Leng'ete, one of the TIME's 100 Most Influential People in 2018, an inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa

Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng'ete saw the young girls she grew up with receive the cut, the rite of passage into female adulthood in Maasai culture. Every girl got the cut. Then she would be married off to a man triple her age. She might be his second or third wife. She'd have children in her teens.

This is what happened to Nice's sister. To resist meant becoming an outcast in Maasai culture, yet Nice managed to avoid it and stay in school. She was shunned. At the age of 21, Nice moved to Nairobi to work for Amref Health Africa, an organization spearheading the campaign against Female Genital Mutilation. Though she was still considered an outcast in her village, young girls began to look up to Nice. They saw the life they could have, not the one chosen for them.

Eventually, Nice Leng'ete developed a platform for convincing women across Africa to forego the cut. First, she won over her village elders. Progress spread from there. Kenya outlawed the cut in 2011, and the Maasai people abandoned it in 2014.

To date, Nice and Amref Health Africa have collaborated to help more than 16,000 girls avoid FGM in Kenya and Tanzania.

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  • Geweldig boek!!!

    Goed inzicht in de gewoontes van de Masai.

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