After School in Brooklyn, West African Girls Share Memories of a Painful Ritual

In a high school classroom in Brooklyn with walls adorned with algebra problems, a 15-year-old girl born in the West African nation of Guinea was talking recently with her friends, after the school day had ended: the subject was female genital mutilation.

via:[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/nyregion/brooklyn-girls-from-west-africa-recall-genital-cutting.html?partner=rss&emc=rss]

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