I was told it's what will make me a woman. I didn't know th… - Kakenya Ntaiya

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I was told it's what will make me a woman. I didn't know that it's something that is done very... it's horrible, you are cut, your genitalia is cut, no anesthesia, you bleed and some people die out of it.

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Kakenya Ntaiya (born 1978) is a Kenyan educator, feminist and social activist. She is the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence and recipient of the CNN Top Ten Hero of the Year (2013)

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I went through the genital mutilation not knowing what it was.

I knew that I wanted something different. So, instead of focusing on being intimidated, I focused on education. I focused on going to school and making sure I stayed there.

I wanted to continue with school because my mother was denied an education and she always told us if she went to school she would have been a different person, so I talked to my dad and told him I can only go through the genital mutilation if he lets me go back to school.

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