By Fuambai Ahmadu,USA.
I am not surprised that the women of Kailahun have taken to the streets to protest what is now becoming a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation and excision in Sierra Leone.
As a Sierra Leonean/American scholar who has devoted the past fifteen years to the research and study of the symbolic and cultural meanings of both female and male initiation practices in West Africa, I have witnessed first-hand the proliferation (and invidiousness) of (...)
Hurray for Bondo women in Kailahun
By Fuambai Ahmadu,USA.
Full storyI am not surprised that the women of Kailahun have taken to the streets to protest what is now becoming a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation and excision in Sierra Leone.
As a Sierra Leonean/American scholar who has devoted the past fifteen years to the research and study of the symbolic and cultural meanings of both female and male initiation practices in West Africa, I have witnessed first-hand the proliferation (and invidiousness) of (...)