Despite growing awareness and legal restrictions across Nigeria, many women continue to live with the hidden physical, sexual, and emotional scars of Female Genital Mutilation, enduring trauma that often remains buried in silence. FAVOUR ABALAKA writes
what began as punishment for having a boyfriend at 14 left Deborah Jonah with wounds that never truly healed.
Forced into circumcision by her family, she says she has spent years battling physical pain, emotional trauma, and the devastating consequences of Female Genital Mutilation.
According to her, the blade opened a chapter of pain that would haunt her for years and a lifelong struggle to reconnect with her body.
Reflecting on the events of many years ago and how she was secretly circumcised by her aunt Deborah, whose real name is withheld, recounted, “When I was younger, I lived with my sister. I had a boyfriend in SS1, and my sister found out and
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