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    I am Nala
    I am Nala
    I am Nala
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    I am Nala

    By Nala Feminist Collective

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    These seven stories narrate powerful and empowering journeys of becoming and overcoming. The women in this anthology are deeply attuned to the challenges and hardships faced by women and girls on the African continent and in the Diaspora. They do not shy away from speaking about these hardships, offering up vulnerable stories that are emblematic of the ongoing disregard of women and girls in Africa and elsewhere. Triumphantly, these hardships fuel these inspiring women to claim their right to humanity, in this way effecting change in their societies and trailblazing a path for women and girls in Africa and beyond. Ultimately, these are triumphant stories of change and agency. They pave the way for future generations and make possible for what was previously thought impossible. Each chapter advocates for one of the Sustainable Development Goals and one of the demands of Africa Young Women Beijing+25 Manifesto.The seven stories in this compilation are a testimony to an Africa that is alive and vibrant and whose future brims with brilliance and promise. Readers from all corners of the world will feel this immense pride and inspiration for Africa is in and of the world. Here you will meet women in their twenties and thirties who have broken new ground and attained many firsts in their respective fields, paving the way for women and girls everywhere.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNala Feminist Collective
    Release dateJul 5, 2022
    ISBN9789914744125
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      I am Nala - Nala Feminist Collective

      CHAPTER ONE

      Your Power is Your Radical Self. Find it

      by Aya Chebbi

      "I am Nala

      because I found power in my voice"

      Tasfih - the ritual

      The old lady made cuts on my left knee seven times until they. bled, then she dipped seven raisins in my fresh blood and forced me to eat them. The taste of blood mixed with the sweetness of raisins still remains in my mouth to this day. My female cousins and I went through the same ritual that day called tasfih or the locker, and we were told to repeat the words I’m a wall and he’s a thread. Blood from my knee, close my little hole.

      What could I do but cry!
      As a young girl, I was powerless.
      Fighting it would have been in vain, anyway.

      They said the spell would be lifted on the day of my wedding. I had barely reached puberty, yet I was already learning how things for young women should be.

      I grew up in a very conservative Muslim family. We lived in a small village called Dahmani on the Tunisian-Algerian border. At the age of nine, I had to go through tasfih like all the girls in my family, generation after generation. The mystical ritual of tasfih is practiced mainly in rural Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. It is believed the execution of the ritual protects girls from sexual contact by preventing sexual intercourse, whether it is wanted or unwanted, desired or forced. In this way, it guarantees their virginity until

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