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Moderate: Death of parent
The only gripe I have is that I cannot shrug off the events in this book as creative genius. The tragedies happened and are still a history of the subject. I liked how she paced everything. I love her and Soila and the sisterhood that exists between them. It is the sisterhood we all deserve but might not all get.
Well done to Nice for doing something that was unthinkable in the eyes of her community.
Well done to Nice for doing something that was unthinkable in the eyes of her community.
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This book is category Leadership Development in the '25 UWF Reading Program. It was read with the Williamsburg UWF zoom Book Club, though I missed that meeting. The story "How I fought to save myself, my sister and thousands of girls worldwide" is a powerful memoir of survival, perseverance and leadership. Nice Leng'ete weaves her personal story with the efforts to end FGM (female genital mutilation), particularly through Amref Health Africa in Kenya and other countries. She is Maasai and maintains her pride and love of her culture, but works to end FGM as a tradition, in order to protect the health of women and raise the options of education for girls and economic development for the tribe as a whole.
The chapters are short and deal with a single topic. However, as a whole, there is repetition in the book as she learns and shares facts of FGM and how her story is woven into the various topics. Because of the typical presentation, there isn't a smooth sense of chronology.
I am so glad to have read this for all that I learned and for a sense of compassion with the dilemma of cultural respect vs. health and advancement. (I think of the former practice of binding Chinese girls' feet, the centuries it took to end the practice). Nice had learned and teaches that FGM has no health or physical benefits, it leads to a multitude of health problems, results in limiting girls education and early marriage (with its own set of health problems from early child bearing). She works too end this practice by first listening to a community's concerns and then asking questions so that local leaders can come to the conclusion in their own that there is a better way. They create their own celebrations of womanhood, without inflicting personal pain and physical damage. The results are healthier, happier and more economically stable marriages and families.
The chapters are short and deal with a single topic. However, as a whole, there is repetition in the book as she learns and shares facts of FGM and how her story is woven into the various topics. Because of the typical presentation, there isn't a smooth sense of chronology.
I am so glad to have read this for all that I learned and for a sense of compassion with the dilemma of cultural respect vs. health and advancement. (I think of the former practice of binding Chinese girls' feet, the centuries it took to end the practice). Nice had learned and teaches that FGM has no health or physical benefits, it leads to a multitude of health problems, results in limiting girls education and early marriage (with its own set of health problems from early child bearing). She works too end this practice by first listening to a community's concerns and then asking questions so that local leaders can come to the conclusion in their own that there is a better way. They create their own celebrations of womanhood, without inflicting personal pain and physical damage. The results are healthier, happier and more economically stable marriages and families.
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What an amazing person Nice Leng’ete is! Absolutely incredible, her story is inspiring