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 Female circumcision or genital cutting, is the world’s most controversial surgery. Many have debated how a medical practice with a lot of health risks and mythical benefits of taming sexual behavior became so widely accepted. Female circumcision is practiced in Africa, the Far East as well as some parts of the Middle East like Yemeni. In June of 1999, while feminists and anthropologists debated whether female circumcision was an issue of cultural relativism or human rights, Nawal Nour, impelled by the growing African immigrant population, opened the first practice in America dedicated to treating women who had undergone circumcision. Read more about Nawal and find out how the African Women’s Health Center, located at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is transforming the lives of ordinary African women. Subscribe today!
Photo Credit - Steve Marsel
 Not many women can speak candidly about their own circumcision. Sia Amma not only spoke about it, she went further and wrote a provocative yet soul healing one woman play entitled, 'In Search of My Clitoris.' Find out why we at Kitu Kizuri think Sia is phenomenal. Subscribe today!
Photo Credit - Courtesy of Sia Amma
 Growing Up African in the Bronx
A lot of questions have been raised about the children of African immigrants who are raised in America. Some have argued that the culture will be lost with each successive generation, while many maintain that much like the African folklore, the culture will survive. We sat down with Jackie Asare who is now 38 years old and her mother Evelyn Parker to hear first hand, what it was like for them to live and grow up being African in Bronx, New York. Subscribe today!
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Thursday, 02 July 2009
We have to have an African renaissance, if we don't, we have no future. What you hear about Africa on the news is aids, hunger and war. But when we go home we see and meet people full of optimism and hope. If we Africans in the Diaspora don't help those in Africa to realize that hope, then we will have failed. 
This holiday season, make it a priority to give gifts that make sense to your pocket as well as your conscience.