The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree
How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
$33.32
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2022
Summary
‘A real hero looks like Nice Leng’ete… [An] elegant and inspiring memoir’ Nice Leng’ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents fell sick and died, and Nice and her sister Soila were taken in by their father’s brother, who had little interest in the girls beyond what their dowries might fetch. Fearing “the cut” (female genital mutilation, a painful and sometimes deadly ritualistic surgery), which was the fate of all Maasai women, Nice and Soila climbed…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472275844 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472275845 |
| Author: | Nice Leng'ete |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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A real hero looks like Nice Leng’ete, the Kenyan anti-female-genital-mutilation activist whose response to her childhood was to improve the experience for others … [An] elegant and inspiring memoir – Sonia Faleiro * New York Times *
An incredibly powerful story that offers real hope for the future * Kirkus *
About The Author
Nice Leng'ete
Nice Nailantei Leng’ete grew up in the village of Noomayianat, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya. After her parents both died within a year of each other in 1998, Nice was sent to live with her uncle. At the age of eight, she avoided being subjected to FGM by running away from home, multiple times. She attended college in Nairobi before joining Amref, where she is now a Health Africa Project Officer and continues to challenge the attitudes of her male-dominated tribe in her quest to end FGM. Since 2009, Nice and Amref Health Africa have helped more than 16,000 girls avoid female genital mutilation/cutting in Kenya and Tanzania.
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