FGM IS NOT OUR CULTURE

Posted by Jeneba Project on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Under: Articles

There is nothing special about bondo bush. It is a place where old people fidget with little girls vaginas. If you want to teach girls culture send them to school. Again, we don't need any bush cultural barracks. FMG is harmful to little girls and an anachronistic cultural practice. Our inability to accept that and change is indicative of a general developmental stagnation and unprogressiveness in our society. 

You should stop senzationalising bondo bush. There is no cultural training happening there...none of the girls put through this harmful tradition graduate with any grand cultural enlightenment other than unnecessary scars, if they are lucky to survive the knives of often intoxicated grannies. 

Children can sing and dance Mende or Limba songs in regular classrooms.

 


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