For the last eight years,Gift and her husband, Augustine, and acquire spent most of their married life on the road fighting FGM in south-east Nigeria“I held the body of a pregnant woman who died in my arms on the way to the hospital because she refused to undergo FGM during childbirth.”Gift Abu is describing what she says was her most harrowing experience working as an anti-FGM activist in Nigeria. A mother-to-be was having complications but the cutters wouldnt attend her give birth safely unless she allowed them to cut her. “They left her for dead when she said no,and blamed me because I tried to discontinue them.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com