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Stop Excision [CD-Rom]Publication Date2000 SummaryThis is a tool used by Project Stop Excision to educate and raise awareness of the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the movement underway to stop it. This CD contains Malian artists singing out against female genital mutilation and for other women's rights.
The organisers maintain that the artists who sing on the album are very well known in Mali and that the songs are heard on radio in Mali. The CD-Rom contains eight songs against FGM which are written in five languages, Bambara, Senoufo, Pulaar, Dogon and Sarakole. They are: O Magni (It's Bad) by Amy Koita (in Bambara), Tukore (Excision) by Neba Solo (in Senoufo), Anka Fo "Ante" (Let's Decide To Say "No") by Kandia Kouyaté, Bural (Let's Never Be The Last Ones) by Aly Baba Cissé (in Pulaar), Sariya (The Law) by The Zotto Boys with the Skankin' Brothers (in Bambara), Aranoin Edula (Excision Is Not Good) by Aly Bodel (in Dogon), 7. N' Farikolo (My Body) by Fantani Touré (in Bambara), and Takhoundi (Excision) by Nayine Koné (in Sarakole). Action against FGC is now widespread in Africa and, in 1993, FGC was declared a human rights violation by international legal institutions. Click here to purchase this CD online. PublisherContactHealthy Tomorrow
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Thanks for including this info. Little improvements I would suggest are:
to say "The CD contains 8 songs AGAINST FGM" (since there are 12 songs but the others aren't about FGM)
to give my website address StopExcision.net
to say French only by our phone numbers, not by my e-mail address, which I like to write with capitals SusanMcL@StopExcision.net
date of publication - if this refers to the CD, it was done in 2000, but maybe you mean your report.
I now have a cell phone too, 615 35 49. I guess we should get rid of the other number, 602 14 11.
These are all little things. The main thing is that I'm very pleased you chose to write about our work.
We are very excited about how it's going. The surprising thing is how often excisers, right after being convinced to stop the practice, like having us sing and they often dance with us either to our singing or to the album, which is a tape over here in Mali. We have almost 100 excisers who've stopped for us and we always give them a tape as a prize.
Yours in the struggle,
Susan McLucas