Minor who paid ultimate price in struggle to end female cut

Although the crusade to ban female circumcision was started in 1920 by the missionaries, it was not until 2011 that a law criminalising the practice was passed. [Photo: Standard]

Never before had the affairs of the country and the destiny of a people rested on the supple body of a primary schoolgirl.

This happened sometimes in June, 89 years ago, when a jealous stepmother wanted to get at her husband and co-wife.