<p>Blood Stains, a best-seller in France, is a Diaspora memoir about growing up in a traditional family in Senegal and emigration to Paris. Its feisty protagonist, Khady, suffers genital mutilation at age seven, a brutal rite that entails lifelong distress, sexual trauma and harrowing childbirths. Married off at thirteen to a man two decades older, the teenager bears five children, and, as a battered wife, blows the whistle on an immigrant community that serves men's interests. Not content to remain a victim, however, the young woman fights for education, earns an independent living and becomes an activist. Her courageous battle against FGM as founder and president of the European Network brings her to the U.N. to urge international support.</p>

Blood Stains - A Child of Africa Reclaims Her Human Rights

Biographies & Memoirs

Cuny, Marie-Thérèse

Khady

Levin, Tobe

Community & Culture

UnCUT/VOICES Press

Undoing Fgm: Pierre Foldes, the Surgeon Who Restores the Clitoris

Hubert Prolongeau

Historical

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Waafrika

Literature & Fiction

Mwaluko, Nick

Dramas & Plays

Waging Empathy

Literary

1992. Kenya. On the eve of the country’s first democratic elections, everyone is brewing with expression, even in the tiny, rural village, Luoland, with no elec - tricity or running water some 250 kilometers northwest of Nairobi. There, although lesbians ‘don’t exist’ in Kenya, two women fall in love: Bobby, a blond American development worker and Awino from the Luo tribe. To complicate matters, Awino’s father is also the Chief who enforces traditions and codes. So when famine strikes, the villagers blame the lesbians for the many, many deaths by starvation. To regain equilibrium, to make everything “normal” once again, Awino – butch bordering on trans – must be “circumcised” – by force – so s/he can act like a real woman rather than a woman “who wants to be” a man, and Bobby must leave. Will Awino and Bobby agree to separate for the good of their community? Or will the village itself change?

Waafrika 123: 1992. Kenya. Two Womyn Fall in Love.

Arts & Photography

Mwaluko, Nick Hadikwa

History & Criticism

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