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SORROWS AFTER CEREMONY

One day in the evening, Bhoke was outside their house sweeping the ground while singing one of her favorite songs. She didn’t know that the day had reached to make her a real woman by circumcising her as the customs and traditions of the Mahema village during the harvesting seasons.
She continued sweeping, Later her mother arrived with a crew of women dancing hardly. Bhoke’s mother welcomed the crew at home and introduced them to the family. When she was doing all this Bhoke was behind the house hearing each and everything being said. Being informed of how circumcision was she ran away to escape from the misery. As the mother came out to look for her so that they can start the program, Bhoke was seen crossing the Banana plantation running. Her mother ordered strong boys in the Mahema village to chase and bring her back before it became a shame to her. The boys caught her and brought her back. Her mother slapped her on the chick and took her to the congregation of circumcisers. When Bhoke entered all the women inside danced happily as Bhoke was quietly glancing down fearfully thinking of how her clitoris going to be cut and removed away. The women continued dancing till when the old woman raised her voice saying it was enough. She took her blunt blade and ordered the assistant woman to hold Bhoke in the upright position. Ngariba kneeled in front of Bhoke, she removed the skirt and pants. Everyone was quite looking attentively what was taking place, the Ngariba took her blunt blade and cut Bhoke’s clitoris. Bhoke shouted with pain when the woman closed her mouth to prevent the noise from spreading away.
As the ceremony progressed, the policemen arrived with two women who introduced themselves as officers from the Tanzania Gender Networking Program (TGNP) and Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (TAWLA). The group of women who gathered at the ceremony together with Bhoke’s parents remained speechless for a while witnessing their joyful moment turning into a misfortune. The policemen arrested them all and after some days, they stood before the court of law to be answerable. The two women took Bhoke to the hospital for medication till when she retained back her healthy from the wounded scars and after a time she was taken to school till when she completed her education.

129 Responses

  12. What a title!!🤗
    This is the story of many girls especially in Mara and Arusha regions!!
    We can be their voice!!!
    Let’s stand against FGM

    It won’t be easy but our future children and grandkids will thank us abt what we are doing now!!!
    There will be no more FGM and it will remain in the history books as it is for small pox!!

  16. It’s good to see how several art aiming at informing citizens on how dangerous is Female genital mutilation is. Excellent work innocent keep it up.

  19. The Title outside and the contents inside in the story are very critical. Very creative story. Congratulation my brother for this story.. it is the very louder voice demanding the abandoning of the FGM in our societies.

  39. What’s an amazing piece of writing, well informative that’s open eyes of what our dearly young females are hardly fighting against in some rural parts of Tanzania.

    Hopefully this will tell the need for more fast transformative communities in assisting reductions of the impacts associated to FGM on single individuals to community at large

  61. The story reflects the scenario that happens in most of the developing countries, I personally congratulate you for using your writting skills to clarify the existance of FGM in our country.
    Thank you.

  68. lets, Increase
    advocacy developing publications and advocacy tools for international, regional and local efforts to end FGM, including tools for policy makers and advocates to estimate the health burden of FGM and the potential public health benefits and cost savings of preventing FGM.

  72. It’s a time for African Youth Generation to come and address current issues & problems incurred in our communities. This is the one of initiatives, to deal on …so big up bro

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