

Writer: Black Tickets, Fast Lanes (story collections), Machine Dreams, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark & Termite, Quiet Dell (novels). http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/mfa
“I was only 10 or 11 years old, when my father decided to circumcise me. I was to become the fifth wife to a 70-year-old man. I talked to my class teacher and she informed the police chief. Just two hours before the cutting ceremony, the police came and took me away,” she recalls. Oiyie was the first girl in her village to say no to FGM.