My FGM reconstruction surgery journey - BBC Africa
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Almost 230 million girls and women around the world have undergone some form of female genital mutilation. Over half of them are in Africa. FGM is the partial or total removal of the external female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Shamsa Sharaawe, or Shamsa Araweelo as she is known on TikTok, underwent reconstructive surgery in Europe to repair the damage done to her as a child in Somalia. She spoke to us about her experience.
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I’m from South Sudan 🇸🇸 we don’t have this but! The child marriages are still happening 😢.
Africa please stop this nonsense.
Ok
We must observe our culture
@@samm9709…’Culture’? You’re marrying children to grown men!
@@samm9709…even if that so-called ‘culture’ is destroying lives or killing people?
This practice doesn't just happen in cultures from the African continent. I happens in Asian cultures too.
As if being a female isn’t painful enough. I praise our sister for making something so dark less taboo. ❤
She lying and doing this because she's paid idk about her personal life, but where she claims to come from, she's lying about that
@@Bell_plejdo568p lol you’re a sad and petty person to think I would be paid to make a simple comment. 🚮
Lol being a female literally couldn't be easier. You get everything handed to you like a baby and contribute nothing to society except onlyfans and tiktok rage.. lol unbelievable
You are a beautiful woman. I won’t pretend to understand anything you have gone through. You are so strong, kind and selfless to share your personal journey with others.
Lucky to be born in Zambia where FGM is not practiced.
@@zedianerkatwishi3930 never forget we’re all affected by this as women/young girls. No matter where we are. 🫶🏽
@@christineom-tiz8793 mine is intact. I am not affected!
@@zedianerkatwishi3930 well I guess in most cases ignorance is bliss. Besides I was concerned with your private parts but thanks
@@christineom-tiz8793 How are u affecetd and this girl is also lying who made this video nor is it as common
Born in Cairo to Zambian parents so grateful our people don't practice this barbarism. Most of our parents love their children. I can't even imagine!
Mutilating any part of the human body for cultural or cosmetic purposes is strange.
True!
Wish the trans community would realize this too.
Hello, I am Haja from the Video. Thanks so much for the support!
For all those commenting about "Africa", a) this practice isn't present in all cultures from the African continent, and b) it is also present in Asia.
How does it improve sexual pleasure if the reconstruction is tissue taken from the inner thighs, it's plastic surgery to make it look like nothing is missing.
Great job BBC on this. Q few years ago for the first time they discussed FGM At my job. O was shocked such a practice existed I then told my friend what we learned and how horrible it is and she confided her parents had her do it. I was so shocked and didnt know what to say. I apologised. She said she is always jealous of women who have not had it done and the only ones who didnt have it done in her area where a particular group. The men who demand this are so wicked and evil.
This evil pratice of FGM has been ban today in the Gambia🇬🇲.# Girls and women lives matters. #
I thought they rejected the ban?
@@RDCFemmesno they rejected the attempt to overturn the ban.
Very informative 👌🏾there's hope 🙏🏾
You are so strong! To have been abused so badly and now a wonderful life!
Pls lend a voice to the plight of Gambian women as it seems the government is trying to make a legislation to return to the darkness of FGM. This is really destruction of the human rights of women.
Gambia does not practice mutilation instead they practice circumcision
@@user-bt8ig1qg8u is it female or male circumcision?
What an ignorant line Gambian men keep repeating.
@@user-bt8ig1qg8uBecause it was banned. Majority of Muslim countries in the past practiced FGM but now thanks to Human Rights organizations, this evil practice is being fought against.
@@user-bt8ig1qg8uif this “circumcision” happens to women it is mutilation- FGM
It happened and won't change much regardless of what was done to her nor the reconstructive surgery she went through. It's not an African culture, nor based on any religion. It is believed to have originated in ancient Egypt during the rule of Pharaohs. Without parents changing their attitude towards this practice, it'll continue to take place and some chicken in the UK won't change much in remote parts of Africa.
What won't chnage and also this girl is also lying about the nation she's from and how common it is
@@Bell_plejdo568p How is she lying when it's done to 99% of Somali girls, I come from the same country as her so I know.
can we also stop MGM?
It's coming
@@mohameda8070 What's coming anf it's not mutliantion
@@Bell_plejdo568p my body my choice
In the states there’s a great doctor who works on similar patients especially Somali community
Where?
Hippocrates
@@SuperGreatSphinx He's lying, just like the girl from this video
@@nursetinalouise He's lying, just like the girl from this video
Where and what does he do, and it's not common in the "Somali community", this girl is lying and is funded to demonize that nation
This is a brave thing to do. Remain strong.
She's lying y
I want my foreskin back, and the NHS (who sliced if from my body) say they can't reverse it with reconstruction surgery, because it's "cosmetic". We have an FGM act in the UK, but no MGM act. Disgraceful sexism.
I am so proud of them❤. I hope each and every one of us does whatever they can to stop this, especially us Africans.
Beautiful Woman
So sad to think something that was part of you was painfully taken away, without your will, only for you to pay in future to get it back. It's so cruel for anyone to think and do this to a child or anyone else against their will.
❤
Love you my girl I love how you laugh 😂😂hah😂😂
She's a lair and agent
Ay men… “what fat? What are you talking about” ? 😂
I feel sorry for the torture you encounter 😢.. no to FGM
Beautiful lady
Beautiful ladies
1) This is a very difficult and delicate topic many African feminists resent speaking about. Especially since this particular discourse is coming from what might be seen as a European/white media service analyzing a topic very personal and cultural to an African woman's genitalia.
The critique of liberal elites so "concerned" with this topic is that there are soo many other more pressing issues directly related to war and peace that decide if African women live or die such as the crisis in the Great Lakes Region. What's with the obsession with the African female genitalia?
I'd tread very sensitively on this one. It's not as straightforward as it seems. Even coming from the testimony of African women! *(Also see: Jomo Kenyatta's Facing Mt. Kenya and his views on this very delicate topic, or the experiences of Ngugi wa Thiongo and the tragedy that befell his ex wife!)
I don't think this would be such a "delicate" topic in your mind if you were at risk of being subjected to this yourself, my dude.
I'm not your dude! Both men and women can have opinions on this topic, and it needs BOTH genders involved. Read the references I provided to understand my context. 👋
Once elders stop being obsessed with the genitals of young African girls, so will everyone else.
Your ignorance is showing because ignorance is a choice. You are disregarding these African women explaining the damage the mutilation caused them and yet claiming it’s unimportant. Removal of the clitoris is not equivalent to removal of male foreskin (which also should not be forced on infants) but is equivalent to castration. Let’s catrate you and ask why your genitals were so important!
@@davidmonda2665… I am not African so I don’t have first hand knowledge about anything that happens on the continent.
But from what I’ve learned, the ‘obsession’ with African women’s genitalia(as you put it), is because it is ruining lives and killing women.
I wonder African countries are still carrying out this barbaric practice.
Which ones and it's only the ones the west lies about to demonize them
It's not all Africa, this is a muslim custom. The why is: because they absolutely hαte women and girls.
Just because one flaw does not make a whole culture or people bad
is that what there saying that the "whole culture and/or people are bad." This lady is also lying about the nation she's from and how common it is there, idk about her life but she lying. She funded to demonzie that nation.
Don't we just loooove Islam? ☺
Is tribal tradition. Ignorant
Oh jeesss.
Oh jeesss.
@@yellowhardhat say it louder for the people in the back (respectfully)
this is actually NOT a Muslim practice but instead merely an AFRICAN tradition and usually found in Afro-Southwest Asiatic societies - from Christian Copts. to Afro-Semitic people who immigrated up to the autochthonous PIE West Asian flat lands of the Indo-European Zagros foothills
This is indirectly questioning God's decision of making you a female which in my opinion is way beyond imagination 🤦♂️
What do you mean? God created the vulva including clitoris.
What exactly is questioning God's decision? The FGM or the reconstruction surgery?
@@sotonjohnbull3522 perhaps questioning the men put on earth wanting to mutilate women/children for their sexual pleasure.
@@sotonjohnbull3522 let me add this question: or those responsible for these heinous crimes? What exactly is God's decision on this matter? Smh
OUR LADY OF AFRICA
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Bravo! I'm glad to see this subject get more attention, and I pray for the end of genital mutilation.
She's lying and she's funded, to demonize the country she claims to be from