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From: "virginia ryan" <coprosma-AT-lineone.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:57:39 +0100


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I can't find the particular mail from the person who began the discussion on FGM.   I am not sure if it has already been mentioned but I saw a news programme on BBC tv the other night about female circumcision in Senegal.  The women of one particular tribe are rejecting their tradition of female circumcision to the extent that they risk being outcast but are committed in spreading the word.  The women, lead by the village cutter are refusing to subject their daughters to the ceremony and are encouraging women in other villages to do the same.  They talked of how they were going to have the first generation of daughters in the village who will not be cut.  The focus of the programme implied that storytelling around the fire in the future would tell of the tales of the bold women who fought against female cutting.

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I can't find the particular mail from the person who began the discussion on FGM.   I am not sure if it has already been mentioned but I saw a news programme on BBC tv the other night about female circumcision in Senegal.  The women of one particular tribe are rejecting their tradition of female circumcision to the extent that they risk being outcast but are committed in spreading the word.  The women, lead by the village cutter are refusing to subject their daughters to the ceremony and are encouraging women in other villages to do the same.  They talked of how they were going to have the first generation of daughters in the village who will not be cut.  The focus of the programme implied that storytelling around the fire in the future would tell of the tales of the bold women who fought against female cutting.
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