ADEISE
Wandering through the deep forest, a shrill cry echoed in the mist as I ran as fast as my legs could carry me with my sister held up close to my chest, tears rolling down her eyes with my hands over her mouth I could feel the heat from her breath and the shivering of her heavy body on mine from the awful sight of what she had to experience that night, I was only 9 and she was 4 years of age. I was in the kitchen that night when two men came in with my uncle’s wife and grabbed me with my mouth covered up and threw me hitting my back against the center table causing me to scream into his hands in pain struggling with my legs as they tried spreading it open I tried and tried losing strength I felt thick hands tearing away my pant moving upon my sexual organ and with a great force I felt a sharp piercing cutting into my flesh continuously I couldn’t hold my screaming, I could pass out was weak from the struggle as I picked up the flower verse close to the table leg and hit my aunty on the head running for my dear life as I ran through the kitchens back door seeing my sister hiding by the window I grabbed her and ran towards the forest I was in so much pain I tried as hard as possible to run faster and faster with the little strength left in me sitting on the ground helplessly besides a native hut when a woman rushed out to help me at the cry of my little sister.
explaining faintly to the woman, I understood this act was a violation of a woman’s right and had been seriously abolished in our time by community champions and advocates which mobilized community rejection of FGM and she is a member of the public communication campaign that kicks against it, she then attended to my sore and opened the sealing done inside me I weakly moaned in pain as I could barely feel my spread legs apart. I lived in a forest as a herbal doctor fighting against the violation of girls from one village to another Naine never gave me a chance to remember my experience of violence but a reason to fight for the helpless.