Life After Reconstruction

By Ntailan Lolkoki

Life After Reconstruction is my story after genital reconstructive surgery. It follows the events of what happened in my life after I wrote my first book, Wings for the Butterfly, published in Germany and in Poland. After the book came out, I thought I would be famous on the spot. Instead, I ended up in a worse situation than I was in; from living in my own flat to being in a refugee home. In the refugee home, which was not supportive for the process of sexual healing after reconstruction, I met up with other forms of traumas, perhaps worse than my own. The result of the hostile environment in the refugee home was the tension that heightened the already frightened sexual restoration, leading to numbness once again and even more rage which eventually became uncontrollable. In order to understand myself better, I became involved with trying to understand the people I came to live with, trying to understand their problems, to the point of understanding that we are all looking for pure love that was denied to us in the formative years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Nov 10, 2023
• ISBN: 9781398435926

Ntailan Lolkoki

Ntailan Lolkoki is an activist against female genital mutilation who has so far published her autobiography narrating her life through FGM. Ntailan also published a second book with Austin Macauley, a novel called The Kingdom of Watetu and Songaland, using her life and the lives of other victims to educate on the subject. She is also a public speaker who encourages young people to say no to female genital mutilation and other forms of abuse.

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