The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree
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The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree

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  • Autor/-inNice Leng'ete
  • VerlagHeadline Book
  • EinbandartSoftcover
  • Seiten240
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The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree

Produktbeschreibung

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.


Titel & Produktsprache

TitelThe Girls in the Wild Fig Tree
UntertitelHow One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
SpracheEnglisch
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Titel & Produktsprache

TitelThe Girls in the Wild Fig Tree
UntertitelHow One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
SpracheEnglisch

Autoren & Verlag

Autor/-inNice Leng'ete
VerlagHeadline Book

Auflage & Publikationsort

Erscheinungsjahr2022

Buch Eigenschaften

EinbandartSoftcover
Seiten240

Produktdimensionen

Gewicht0.18 kg
Höhe196 mm
Breite128 mm
Dicke24 mm

ISBN

ISBN978-1-4722-7584-4

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