As a prominent activist, she talks regularly in schools about the risks of genital mutilation, and to urge girls not to become victims like her. This hasn’t come without a price: Hibo has lost friends. When it was revealed that she refused to have her daughters cut, people warned her they would be considered impure. ‘They said nobody will marry them, that they’re sluts.’ The puzzling thing about female genital mutilation is that there seem to be no winners. Not men, not women. Wives have reported depression and domestic abuse because their husbands can’t accept that they don’t want to have
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