Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa)

Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa)
by Fadumo Korn

Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa)
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Author: Fadumo Korn
Translator: Tobe Levin
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 1558615318
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

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Book Review: A harsh and much needed criticism against the atrocity of female genital mutilation
Summary: 5 Stars

The horrors of female circumcision - something long since banned in the Western world, it is still practiced in many African Countries. "Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival" is author and feminist Fadumo Korn's story of nearly dying to the barbaric practice and her rise to becoming a spokesman against the practice. A harsh and much needed criticism against the atrocity of female genital mutilation, "Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival" has the highest recommendation to community library women's studies collections as a bastion against this cruelty that far too many young girls in the world have been exposed to.

Summary of Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa)


This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the Somali president. She enters a world of luxury underpinned with political instability and cruelty, but receives an invaluable education. Korn eventually moves to Germany for therapy and recounts her life there-her marriage, the birth of her son, and her involvement in the movement to end genital cutting-with warm and inspiring humor.

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