Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa)

Type

Book

Authors

Fadumo Korn

ISBN 10

1558615318

ISBN 13

9781558615311

Tags

Africa, Memoirs, Women, Travelers & Explorers, Women in History, General, Travel Writing, Women's Studies

Description

This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the Somali president. She enters a world of luxury underpinned with political instability and cruelty, but receives an invaluable education. Korn eventually moves to Germany for therapy and recounts her life there—her marriage, the birth of her son, and her involvement in the movement to end genital cutting—with warm and inspiring humor. - from Amzon

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