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...urine. Infections and hemorrhaging are not uncommon; intercourse can be excruciatingly painful. The surgical methods are prescribed not by science but by a tradition that expects girls to go through such rites of passage before marriage. Oluloro is afraid that if she is deported from Portland, Oregon, to Nigeria, her two daughters Shade, 6, and Lara, 5 -- both American citizens -- will be mutilated...
...they don't do it in America here. It sounded so funny to her. She couldn't believe that. She said that if we come home, they are going to do it for her no matter what." Though Oluloro belongs to the Yoruba, perhaps the most Westernized of Nigeria's tribes and one in which female circumcision has long been in decline, she hails from a rural area where it is still widely practiced...
...attempting to appear sensitive, may not want a new precedent set or a new category of "cultural asylum" established. In an ambivalently worded telegram to the presiding judge in Portland, the State Department declared that its latest reports indicate that female circumcision is practiced in more than half of Nigeria; still, it said, while the girls might be cut, "that is not an inevitable consequence." The telegram added that if Oluloro was deported, she did not have to live where mutilation remains the custom...
...called him as a witness against his ex-wife. In the courtroom, the story is a he- said, she-said quagmire. She accuses him of bigamy; he accuses her of multiple marriages as well. He says he opposes mutilation and that she once suggested bringing her daughters back to Nigeria for cutting. She denies that. Life in Portland has changed her attitude, she says. "I look at ((Western women)), and I don't see any difference between me and them. And they can't see any difference in me. They can't look inside...
Through July 3. African and Oceanic Sculpture: Treasures from a Private Collection. The objects are mostly wood and terracotta, ranging from a miniature wooden mask from Zaire to monumental yoruba veranda post from Nigeria...