Brother momodou and Sister Ginny,
I'm sorry that I've been so busy that I still haven't read the rest of Momodou's very important posting. I'll catch up shortly.
In the meantime you could take a look at this, and the much more that will follow, soon ......
http://www.google.co.uk/search?rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-46%2CGGLJ%3Aen-GB&hl=en&q=Anthill+-+about+FGM&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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> From: Momodou S Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2006/12/02 lö PM 11:55:41 CET
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Ämne: Fwd: Sabuni and FGM
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> Sister Ginny,
>
> Many many thanks for your points of view, and I hope my friend Cornelius
> Edward Hamelberg would take the time to carefully go through them.
>
> But no, Mr. Hamelberg is not a white man; and so thank you for pulling his
> ears real hard. All of this ought to have been a race-neutral discussion,
> but it is as you said: most Africans I talked to see Nyamko as a probable
> conduit of anti-immigrant sentiments; and all progressive minded people,
> white or black, need to expose that in concrete terms.
>
> On the other hand, you have succeeded in shaming me into admitting that I
> know just as little as you do about FGC. I have been in possession of Ylva
> Hernlund's work for the past one year, but have not managed to read beyond a
> little of the introduction. I have, though, promised myself that I need to
> study it for my own sake. Obviously, it crossed my mind that I would have
> been better able to respond to Mr. Hamelberg had I read Ylva's work. Shame
> on me.
>
> On the other hand, material I read more than ten year's ago, was a
> presentation basically on Aids in the Congo by another social
> anthropologist, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, who lectured at Lund university for
> many years. Kajsa Friedman's open racism forced me to read her work
> critically. [She associated herself with a white supremacist group here in
> the early 90's before disappearing from public view as a result of a moral
> campaign waged against her views by her own daughters].
>
> Allow me also to mention in passing, that I became aware of the publicity of
> FGC in the West when my friend Absjorn Nordam, sent me cuttings from the
> Danish newspaper Politiken, perhaps in 1980 (?) while still living in
> Gambia. The then Gambian minister of health, Mrs. Cecilia Cole, at a women's
> conference in Copenhagen, admitted openly that "yes, we cut the C in
> Gambia", creating a sensation that made headlines the next day.
>
> Otherwise, perhaps it is helpful to say that debates on FGM/FGC have occured
> on Gambia-l numerous times in the past, and I think I have maintained some
> of my views of seven or eight years ago. I am not sure if our current
> archives go that far.
>
> Perhaps someone else can answer your questions. Otherwise you will have to
> wait till I finish going through Ylva's work, by which time you would have
> finished reading her book...For the moment though, the best you can do is to
> try googling around.
>
> Again thank you also for reminding us to exercise moderation in the language
> we use on these issues.
>
> Cheers,
> sidibeh
>
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