A Champion Against Female Genital Mutilation

How Edan Adan Ismail became an advocate against FGM.

Photo by John Lamparski

Edna Adan Ismail was born on September 8, 1937, in Hargeisa, British Somaliland. She was the daughter of a prominent Somali medical doctor and was one of five children but two died at birth. During her early years, girls were not educated but her father hired a tutor for them and they learned to read and write. She was later sent to…