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Article: Female genital mutilation in Nigeria.
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- WIN News
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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IAC - INTER AFRICAN COMMITTEE - NIGERIA MONOGRAPH SERIES ON HARMFUL AND BENEFICIAL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES IN NIGERIA, NO. 1
IAC NIGERIA. 14A Akin Adesola St., Victoria Island, Lagos, NIGERIA P.O. Box 71607, Victoria Island, Lagos, NIGERIA Dr Irene THOMAS, President.
FROM THE PREFACE BY DR. IRENE M. THOMAS:
Many traditional practices in Africa are harmful to women and children. For example, the genitals of close to eighty million African women have been mutilated, most at an age when they were unable to recognize or resist the irreparable damage that was being inflicted on them for religious and cultural reasons.
More and more girl-children/women ...