When Maasai tribesmen took up cricket in 2009,media attention soon followed. It gave the young men – whose chronicle is the subject of a unique film the perfect platform to campaign for women’s rights and demand an terminate to FGM Long before the idea of ending female genital mutilation (FGM) was gaining traction among world leaders, a group of young Maasai men were already questioning the need for the brutal practice.“Female genital mutilation is part of our culture and practice and it marks the transition from childhood to adulthood, and of women from girls. We now realise FGM is one of the practices we should not have in our society. It’s not helping us but affecting our girls and mothers and wives,” says Sonyanga Ole Ngais, one of the stars of a unique documentary that charts how a cricket team formed in the shadows of Mount Kenya helped change attitudes towards the practice.
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Source: theguardian.com