The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree

How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide

The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree
Nice Leng'ete
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Paperback
h196 x 128mm - 240pg
17 Mar 2022 UK
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9781472275844
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An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout AfricaBorn in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng' ete saw the young girls she grew up with receive the cut, the rite of passage into female adulthood in Masai culture. Every girl got the cut, and once you did, you' d be married off to a man triple your age. You might be his second or third wife. You' d have children in your teens. This is exactly what happened to Nice' s sister. To resist the cut meant becoming an outcast in Masai culture. Yet Nice managed to avoid it and stay in school. It was not an easy time. She was shunned. At the age of 21, Nice moved to Nairobi to work for Amref Health Africa, an organization spearheading the campaign against Female Genital Mutilation. Though she was still considered an outcast in her village - even an entapai (someone who brought shame to her family) - young girls began to look up to Nice. They saw the life they could have, not the one chosen for them. Eventually, thanks to a combination of incredible instincts, excellent training and leading by example, Nice Leng' ete developed a platform for convincing women across Africa to forego the cut. First, she won over her village elders. It spread from there. Kenya outlawed the cut in 2011, and the Masai people abandoned it in 2014. To date, Nice and Amref Health Africa have collaborated to help more than 16,000 girls avoid FGM in Kenya and Tanzania.
Nice Nailantei Leng' ete grew up in the village of Noomayianat, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya. After herparents both died within a year of each other in 1998, Nice was sent to live with her uncle. At the age of eight, sheavoided being subjected to FGM by running away from home, multiple times. She attended college in Nairobi beforejoining Amref, where she is now a Health Africa Project Officer and continues to challenge the attitudes of hermale-dominated tribe in her quest to end FGM. Since 2009, Nice and Amref Health Africa have helped more than16,000 girls avoid female genital mutilation/cutting in Kenya and Tanzania

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