As if being a female isn’t painful enough. I praise our sister for making something so dark less taboo. ❤

I’m from South Sudan 🇸🇸 we don’t have this but! The child marriages are still happening 😢. Africa please stop this nonsense.

Mutilating any part of the human body for cultural or cosmetic purposes is strange.

Lucky to be born in Zambia where FGM is not practiced.

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.

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.

Hello, I am Haja from the Video. Thanks so much for the support!

You are so strong! To have been abused so badly and now a wonderful life!

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.

Very informative 👌🏾there's hope 🙏🏾

This evil pratice of FGM has been ban today in the Gambia🇬🇲.# Girls and women lives matters. #

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a brave thing to do. Remain strong.

In the states there’s a great doctor who works on similar patients especially Somali community

can we also stop MGM?

Beautiful Woman

I am so proud of them❤. I hope each and every one of us does whatever they can to stop this, especially us Africans.

Ay men… “what fat? What are you talking about” ? 😂

Just because one flaw does not make a whole culture or people bad

I feel sorry for the torture you encounter 😢.. no to FGM

❤

Beautiful lady

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!)

Love you my girl I love how you laugh 😂😂hah😂😂

I wonder African countries are still carrying out this barbaric practice.

Don't we just loooove Islam? ☺

This is indirectly questioning God's decision of making you a female which in my opinion is way beyond imagination 🤦‍♂️

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.