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FGM is Wrong

We would like to reaffirm our support for the activities ofthe Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices (GAMCOTRAP), especially itsfight against Female Gender Mutilation (FGM). We hold that FGM is a barbaricpractice that has no place at all in contemporary society. Regardless of itstraditional justification, FGM as is practised in most African societies iscrude and harmful, leaving most girls scarred for life. Long before now, manyAfrican societies, including some in The Gambia, had denounced...

Bravo Daily Observer

Editor, Thank you, the Daily Observer. We are proud of you. Jalikebba was very happy when we told him that ‘you are on the newspaper.’ He’d been to Austria and Germany; he is now in a practice with a TUBABS group in Amsterdam, for a festival in Belgium. We will tell you more about Jalikebba. Please watch out for the next information. Thanks, from the management. Jan

Circumcision from a traditional perspective

Circumcision is another largely cherished traditional practice observed in Africa and the world at large. This practice, in many of the societies that practice it, is considered to be obligatory on every one, especially within Muslim communities, where the rite is a most for every one, with special emphasis on the male child. In certain quarters, however, emphasis is placed on both the male and female, a situation that date back from thousands of years until recently when the issue of Female...

Squats: The Ultimate Leg And All Body Exercise

Your legs are your foundations and hard heavy leg training will transform your physique making it more powerful and stronger than you ever imagined. However, hard heavy leg training is brutal and that's why the majority of the masses run for the hills and don't achieve Ultimate Body Success. Leg training is simple in many ways but at the same time has many subtle technical and psychological nuances that make it very challenging and often very frustrating when people get stuck but can’t quite...

Computer Literacy a Must for Teens

What do teens and modern technologies have in common? Answer, they both want to make life easier. Teens use modern technologies like the computer in order to make high school life better. Gone are the days when typewriters ruled the universe. Computers are here to stay. It doesn’t mean though that just because a teen owns a computer then he or she can be branded as computer literate. There’s more to being knowledgeable of the modern innovations of man. If teens want to be computer literate,...

BURKINA FASO: Girl's death prompts search for new strategies to fight FGM

The death of a 14-year-old girl from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has sparked shock and anger in Burkina Faso, which has been seen as far ahead of other African countries in the fight against the practice. “Sorrowful and shocking" is how Aïna Ouédraogo, permanent secretary of the National Committee for the Fight against Excision (CNLPE), described the girl's death. The teenager was one of 15 girls – aged 4 to 14 – who were circumcised the week of 17 September in the rural town of...

GUINEA-BISSAU: Two thousand girls a year suffer genital mutilation

The annual female genital mutilation season in Guinea-Bissau begins when schools close for the winter holidays from July to September. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that each year the parents of around 2,000 girls send them to "fanatecas" to be ritually circumcised. Sinim Mira Nassiquê - 'We are thinking of the future' in Mandinka - a non-governmental organisation, brought fanatecas and activists together this month to discuss the health hazards of genital mutilation. The meeting...

SIERRA LEONE: Long road ahead for awareness programmes

Poor information and a lack of open discussion about sex is fueling an increase in HIV in postwar Sierra Leone, according to Dr Brima Kargbo, acting director of the country's National AIDS Secretariat (NAS). In response, Kargbo's organisation is launching a massive awareness campaign entitled the "Accelerated HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme". The capital, Freetown, and villages and towns in the hinterland are filled with anti-HIV posters and billboards: "Let's abstain from unsafe sex, use...