Born in the Big Rains

By Fadumo Korn, Sabine Eichhorst

Subjects: Africa, social life and customs, Women, biography, Female circumcision, Women, africa, Fiction, Somalis, Germany, biography

Description: Fadumo's childhood ends at seven when an "excisor" cuts out her "impurity", i.e., she undergoes FGM. Beset with infections, she moves in with her uncle, brother of Somalia's president. Eventually in Germany, Fadumo builds a new life.