Sunday, November 29, 2009

GENITAL MUTILATION - THE FATE OF AFRICAN FEMALE CHILDREN

On IPPmedia.com 26th november 2009, it was reported that a woman fainted after returning home to find her 4 months old female baby, has had her genitals cut off while she was doing groceries shopping for teh family.

Alas, this is just one out of a 1,000 cases that get's reported. In most rural villages genital mutilation for female children is still part of the culture. It is not something for the public or other tribes to know ... this is why in most African tribes like my own - Chagga- we are continuously warned NOT to have partners from another tribe because you never know what you might be getting yourself into.
African tribal cultures/traditions are well protected and only those who belong in a paticular tribe gets to learn the real truth.

This is not the story of one woman, it is the story of many women who have to stay silent. These women need the power to fight for their rights and the rights of their children. It is still our world ..............

Woman faints recounting how her baby-girl was `cut`
By Edwin Agola
26th November 2009


A Dar es Salaam-based woman, Rachel Kasute yesterday fainted when narrating how her husband and mother-in-law conspired to have her four-month old baby girl undergo female genital mutilation.
Narrating how she was forced to run away from her dear family, Rachel said that her mother in law travelled from upcountry to Dar es Salaam, purposely to circumcise her first-born baby girl.
She was narrating her inside story at the launch of worldwide 16 days of campaign against gender-based violence in Dar es Salaam.
“I wasn’t aware of the mission. One evening, my husband asked me to go to the market to buy some items. I went without my baby.”
“On my way back I found my baby was already circumcised, crying uncontrollably, with a lot of blood.”
“I couldn’t stand what had happened. I decided to run away with my wounded child,” she sadly said, before fainting.........................''