My FGM reconstruction surgery journey – BBC Africa
My FGM reconstruction surgery journey – BBC Africa
Almost 230 million girls and women around the world have undergone some form of female genital mutilation. Over half of them are in Africa. FGM is the partial or total removal of the external female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Shamsa Sharaawe, or Shamsa Araweelo as she is known on TikTok, underwent reconstructive surgery in Europe…
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Thank you very much for sharing, I'm from Sierra Leone and i will like to do my clitoris reconstruction, i live in Germany but i don't know how to go about it, please help with the doctor
I hope this barabarism will stop everyere. A lot of people even in EU are not god informed about that.
I was cut when i was 6 years old and a few days ago i found out that my clitoris is missing, I'm 22.
I always wanted to be a mom and get married but i don't want to anymore.
Hello, I am Haja from the Video. Thanks so much for the support!
You are so strong! To have been abused so badly and now a wonderful life!
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.
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.
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.
Zici că eşti un BIC cu cercelu ăla în nas
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.
This evil pratice of FGM has been ban today in the Gambia🇬🇲.# Girls and women lives matters. #
Very informative 👌🏾there's hope 🙏🏾
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.
Beautiful Woman
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.
African parents in particular are so focused on controlling the entire being of a girl child so much that they forgt the existence of the male child and now we have men who would even rape an alligator..much less a woman
They device barbaric means and ways to put us in check forgetting that we are victims and not perpetrators
We don’t go about raping anything rapeable
What did they do to put in check the boys who have now turned out to be society’s worst nightmares
Oh well🤦🏻♀️
I wonder African countries are still carrying out this barbaric practice.
Just because one flaw does not make a whole culture or people bad
Goback to your coutry
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.
I feel sorry for the torture you encounter 😢.. no to FGM
I am so proud of them❤. I hope each and every one of us does whatever they can to stop this, especially us Africans.
Ay men… “what fat? What are you talking about” ? 😂
can we also stop MGM?
I support our African culture,the whites came to spoil our land
OUR LADY OF AFRICA
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
In the states there’s a great doctor who works on similar patients especially Somali community
Mutilating any part of the human body for cultural or cosmetic purposes is strange.
Beautiful lady
I’m from South Sudan 🇸🇸 we don’t have this but! The child marriages are still happening 😢.
Africa please stop this nonsense.
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I hate that people in the world say "the gender war" is silly. FGM is one aspect of the misogyny upon women. The fact that in the world, there are heterosexual men, entire cultures that say "we value women" & then try to remove a woman's womanhood, is beyond evil its hypocritical & stupid. Not all African cultures practice this btw. There are many if not most that do not mess with women's parts. And a few other cultures that actually use techniques to enlarge the clitoris & labia majora etc. Just food for thought. I pray that one day African descent women globally, are truly loved & acknowledged in the world as they always should have been.
This is a brave thing to do. Remain strong.
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.
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!)
Love you my girl I love how you laugh 😂😂hah😂😂
FGM is such an evil practice!
Don't we just loooove Islam? ☺
Lucky to be born in Zambia where FGM is not practiced.
It’s way past time that Africa does away with some aspects of the past and their ‘culture’ that they keep holding on to. Some of the practices(the harmful ones), hold no relevance in modern society.