I’m from South Sudan 🇸🇸 we don’t have this but! The child marriages are still happening 😢. Africa please stop this nonsense.

@jamalov6026

26 күн бұрын

Ok

@samm9709

26 күн бұрын

We must observe our culture

@johncbny

26 күн бұрын

@@samm9709…’Culture’? You’re marrying children to grown men!

@johncbny

26 күн бұрын

@@samm9709…even if that so-called ‘culture’ is destroying lives or killing people?

@Christine-Tina

20 күн бұрын

This practice doesn't just happen in cultures from the African continent. I happens in Asian cultures too.

As if being a female isn’t painful enough. I praise our sister for making something so dark less taboo. ❤

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

She lying and doing this because she's paid idk about her personal life, but where she claims to come from, she's lying about that

@christineom-tiz8793

21 күн бұрын

@@Bell_plejdo568p lol you’re a sad and petty person to think I would be paid to make a simple comment. 🚮

@SouthernPawsFN

9 күн бұрын

Lol being a female literally couldn't be easier. You get everything handed to you like a baby and contribute nothing to society except onlyfans and tiktok rage.. lol unbelievable

Mutilating any part of the human body for cultural or cosmetic purposes is strange.

@blessingecoma9233

26 күн бұрын

True! Wish the trans community would realize this too.

Lucky to be born in Zambia where FGM is not practiced.

@christineom-tiz8793

26 күн бұрын

@@zedianerkatwishi3930 never forget we’re all affected by this as women/young girls. No matter where we are. 🫶🏽

@zedianerkatwishi3930

26 күн бұрын

@@christineom-tiz8793 mine is intact. I am not affected!

@christineom-tiz8793

25 күн бұрын

@@zedianerkatwishi3930 well I guess in most cases ignorance is bliss. Besides I was concerned with your private parts but thanks

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

@@christineom-tiz8793 How are u affecetd and this girl is also lying who made this video nor is it as common

@gracefaithjanet2673

18 күн бұрын

Born in Cairo to Zambian parents so grateful our people don't practice this barbarism. Most of our parents love their children. I can't even imagine!

You are a beautiful woman. I won’t pretend to understand anything you have gone through. You are so strong, kind and selfless to share your personal journey with others.

Hello, I am Haja from the Video. Thanks so much for the support!

For all those commenting about "Africa", a) this practice isn't present in all cultures from the African continent, and b) it is also present in Asia.

Great job BBC on this. Q few years ago for the first time they discussed FGM At my job. O was shocked such a practice existed I then told my friend what we learned and how horrible it is and she confided her parents had her do it. I was so shocked and didnt know what to say. I apologised. She said she is always jealous of women who have not had it done and the only ones who didnt have it done in her area where a particular group. The men who demand this are so wicked and evil.

Pls lend a voice to the plight of Gambian women as it seems the government is trying to make a legislation to return to the darkness of FGM. This is really destruction of the human rights of women.

@user-bt8ig1qg8u

26 күн бұрын

Gambia does not practice mutilation instead they practice circumcision

@maibege761

26 күн бұрын

@@user-bt8ig1qg8u is it female or male circumcision?

@nursetinalouise

26 күн бұрын

What an ignorant line Gambian men keep repeating.

@treasuredpossesion9047

26 күн бұрын

@@user-bt8ig1qg8uBecause it was banned. Majority of Muslim countries in the past practiced FGM but now thanks to Human Rights organizations, this evil practice is being fought against.

@mellymel6624

26 күн бұрын

@@user-bt8ig1qg8uif this “circumcision” happens to women it is mutilation- FGM

How does it improve sexual pleasure if the reconstruction is tissue taken from the inner thighs, it's plastic surgery to make it look like nothing is missing.

You are so strong! To have been abused so badly and now a wonderful life!

This evil pratice of FGM has been ban today in the Gambia🇬🇲.# Girls and women lives matters. #

@RDCFemmes

20 күн бұрын

I thought they rejected the ban?

@DunyaVersusAsana

17 күн бұрын

@@RDCFemmesno they rejected the attempt to overturn the ban.

Very informative 👌🏾there's hope 🙏🏾

It happened and won't change much regardless of what was done to her nor the reconstructive surgery she went through. It's not an African culture, nor based on any religion. It is believed to have originated in ancient Egypt during the rule of Pharaohs. Without parents changing their attitude towards this practice, it'll continue to take place and some chicken in the UK won't change much in remote parts of Africa.

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

What won't chnage and also this girl is also lying about the nation she's from and how common it is

@FF-by6ci

18 күн бұрын

@@Bell_plejdo568p How is she lying when it's done to 99% of Somali girls, I come from the same country as her so I know.

can we also stop MGM?

@mohameda8070

25 күн бұрын

It's coming

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

@@mohameda8070 What's coming anf it's not mutliantion

@blocktube1449

15 күн бұрын

@@Bell_plejdo568p my body my choice

I want my foreskin back, and the NHS (who sliced if from my body) say they can't reverse it with reconstruction surgery, because it's "cosmetic". We have an FGM act in the UK, but no MGM act. Disgraceful sexism.

In the states there’s a great doctor who works on similar patients especially Somali community

@nursetinalouise

26 күн бұрын

Where?

@SuperGreatSphinx

26 күн бұрын

Hippocrates

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

@@SuperGreatSphinx He's lying, just like the girl from this video

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

@@nursetinalouise He's lying, just like the girl from this video

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

Where and what does he do, and it's not common in the "Somali community", this girl is lying and is funded to demonize that nation

This is a brave thing to do. Remain strong.

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

She's lying y

I am so proud of them❤. I hope each and every one of us does whatever they can to stop this, especially us Africans.

So sad to think something that was part of you was painfully taken away, without your will, only for you to pay in future to get it back. It's so cruel for anyone to think and do this to a child or anyone else against their will.

Beautiful Woman

1) This is a very difficult and delicate topic many African feminists resent speaking about. Especially since this particular discourse is coming from what might be seen as a European/white media service analyzing a topic very personal and cultural to an African woman's genitalia. The critique of liberal elites so "concerned" with this topic is that there are soo many other more pressing issues directly related to war and peace that decide if African women live or die such as the crisis in the Great Lakes Region. What's with the obsession with the African female genitalia? I'd tread very sensitively on this one. It's not as straightforward as it seems. Even coming from the testimony of African women! *(Also see: Jomo Kenyatta's Facing Mt. Kenya and his views on this very delicate topic, or the experiences of Ngugi wa Thiongo and the tragedy that befell his ex wife!)

@annap1171

26 күн бұрын

I don't think this would be such a "delicate" topic in your mind if you were at risk of being subjected to this yourself, my dude.

@davidmonda2665

26 күн бұрын

I'm not your dude! Both men and women can have opinions on this topic, and it needs BOTH genders involved. Read the references I provided to understand my context. 👋

@GypsyVictorious

26 күн бұрын

Once elders stop being obsessed with the genitals of young African girls, so will everyone else.

@nursetinalouise

26 күн бұрын

Your ignorance is showing because ignorance is a choice. You are disregarding these African women explaining the damage the mutilation caused them and yet claiming it’s unimportant. Removal of the clitoris is not equivalent to removal of male foreskin (which also should not be forced on infants) but is equivalent to castration. Let’s catrate you and ask why your genitals were so important!

@johncbny

26 күн бұрын

⁠@@davidmonda2665… I am not African so I don’t have first hand knowledge about anything that happens on the continent. But from what I’ve learned, the ‘obsession’ with African women’s genitalia(as you put it), is because it is ruining lives and killing women.

❤

I wonder African countries are still carrying out this barbaric practice.

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

Which ones and it's only the ones the west lies about to demonize them

@LogarAcc

21 күн бұрын

It's not all Africa, this is a muslim custom. The why is: because they absolutely hαte women and girls.

Love you my girl I love how you laugh 😂😂hah😂😂

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

She's a lair and agent

I feel sorry for the torture you encounter 😢.. no to FGM

Just because one flaw does not make a whole culture or people bad

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

is that what there saying that the "whole culture and/or people are bad." This lady is also lying about the nation she's from and how common it is there, idk about her life but she lying. She funded to demonzie that nation.

Ay men… “what fat? What are you talking about” ? 😂

Beautiful lady

@sandmors7998

26 күн бұрын

Beautiful ladies

Don't we just loooove Islam? ☺

@mansamusa1848

26 күн бұрын

Is tribal tradition. Ignorant

@maibege761

26 күн бұрын

Oh jeesss.

@maibege761

26 күн бұрын

Oh jeesss.

@christineom-tiz8793

26 күн бұрын

@@enx11 say it louder for the people in the back (respectfully)

@rainhawk5264

25 күн бұрын

this is actually NOT a Muslim practice but instead merely an AFRICAN tradition and usually found in Afro-Southwest Asiatic societies - from Christian Copts. to Afro-Semitic people who immigrated up to the autochthonous PIE West Asian flat lands of the Indo-European Zagros foothills

This is indirectly questioning God's decision of making you a female which in my opinion is way beyond imagination 🤦‍♂️

@nursetinalouise

26 күн бұрын

What do you mean? God created the vulva including clitoris.

@sotonjohnbull3522

26 күн бұрын

What exactly is questioning God's decision? The FGM or the reconstruction surgery?

@christineom-tiz8793

26 күн бұрын

@@sotonjohnbull3522 perhaps questioning the men put on earth wanting to mutilate women/children for their sexual pleasure.

@maibege761

26 күн бұрын

@@sotonjohnbull3522 let me add this question: or those responsible for these heinous crimes? What exactly is God's decision on this matter? Smh

OUR LADY OF AFRICA THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Bravo! I'm glad to see this subject get more attention, and I pray for the end of genital mutilation.

@Bell_plejdo568p

22 күн бұрын

She's lying and she's funded, to demonize the country she claims to be from