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...doesn't matter whether it's Christian, Muslim or whatever," says Zipporah Kittony, a Kenyan M.P. and chairman of the Kenyan women's lobby group Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (Progress for Women). "It's cultural and it's commonplace...
...alternative rite of passage, which in one Kenyan language is known as circumcision through words, commonly involves a period of seclusion for the girls. Elder women teach them health issues including the dangers of aids and other sexually transmitted diseases. Sometimes a group of girls is taken to a local school or hall and shown films about the dangers of FGM. The week often ends with a party. "We are not against people's customs, we are against the cutting," says Traoré Dosso Mariam, secretary-general of the Ivorian Association for the Defence of Women's Rights, which encourages...
...GEORGE MURRAY/GALBE.COM for TIME Kenyan anti-FGM campaigners...
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...small crew of English filmmakers is in Timia to capture the race and wedding for an episode of a new Thirteen/WNET New York and National Geographic Television documentary series called 'Africa.' The series, premiers on Sunday September 9 with a look at life on the Kenyan savanna. (Adam appears in episode two, entitled 'Desert Odyssey.') The series aims to show aspects of Africa far-removed from the famine, war and disease of popular perception. "So few people in America really know about Africa," says co-executive producer Jennifer Lawson. "I wanted to give people a better view, a more complex...