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Reflections on Felister Nyaera Nkangi's "Assessment of Oral Media Utilization on 'Female Circumcision' among the Abagusii Community of Kenya"
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Reflections on Felister Nyaera Nkangi's "Assessment of Oral Media Utilization on 'Female Circumcision' among the Abagusii Community of Kenya"

Shulamit Reinharz
The Routledge International Handbook of Harmful Cultural Practices, pp.427-430
Routledge, 1
2024

Abstract

In her interesting chapter, Felister Nyaera Nkangi broadens the focus from arguments about female genital mutilation as a harmful cultural practice to examine how to create social change, that is, how to persuade all the relevant actors to abandon the practice, a custom so ingrained in people's lives that, she reports, "97% of Kenyan Abagusii amputate girls' genitalia." How do you go from 97% to 0%?

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