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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781472275844 | ISBN 10: 1472275845
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 ... more
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£29.00 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9789970700196 | ISBN 10: 9970700197
Female genital mutilation is the excruciating and damaging experience that a lot of women in many cultures across Africa and in many other parts of the world suffer. Even when the women find themselves, for one reason or another, relocated in what sh ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780252072734 | ISBN 10: 0252072731
Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood is a much-needed response to the ethnocentric and arrogant Western perceptions surrounding female genital cutting (FGC), often referred to as either female genital mutilation or female circumcision, but wh ... more
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£12.50 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781591605614 | ISBN 10: 159160561x
Firmly anti-fgm, but it is written by a Chrstian Kenyan pastor and hence is very biblical. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780747520221 | ISBN 10: 0747520224
Aman is the intimate first-person account of a young woman's coming-of-age in Somalia. The daughter of tribal leaders, Aman recounts her dramatic life with stark simplicity and winning candour: an innocent childhood romance with a white boy that lead ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780099224112 | ISBN 10: 0099224119
When Alice Walker finshed writing The Color Purple she realised that she needed to tell the story of Tashi, a minor character, who had "left Africa but had taken her wound with her to America". This is Tashi's story, told in her words and the v ... more
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£26.99 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780862327019 | ISBN 10: 0862327016
Dr Koso-Thomas shows that female circumcision is not confined to the Horn of Africa, or the Muslim areas of the continent. Her study of the practice in Sierra Leone demonstrates its important role in the traditional initiation of females into both w ... more
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