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FGM: The pest behind the flower

Nairobi, Kenya: To travel the world and find out that this doesn't happen [to all women] and what happened is wrong is one experience a young girl, now 48 Waris Dirie had to go through and stand out strong.

Waris Dirie an energetic and enigmatic woman and a mother of four, who flew from Somali by foot is a victim and a campaigner against FGM. In her book the Desert Flower she explains that, FGM denied her the pleasure of sex and left her as a tool to please a man.

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