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Female Genital Mutilation: How the rich do it

You can take a man to Lavington, but you can’t rid him of the village urge to circumcise his daughter.

It appears that educated and affluent families in Nairobi steeped in outdated cultural practices are bussing their young daughters to the countryside for the cut in ‘hygienic conditions’ as hospital patients.

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