Fátima Djarra Sani (born 1968) is a

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feminist activist concerned with visibility of African women and preventing

female genital mutilation Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found ...

(FGM).

Early life

Fátima Djarra Sani was born in

Bissau Bissau () is the capital, and largest city of Guinea-Bissau. Bissau had a population of 492,004. Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's largest city, major port, and its administrative and m ...

, the country's capital, in 1968. She is an activist against the genital mutilation of women in Guinea-Bissau and represents

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in Africa. Her family comes from the Mandinga ethnic group. She suffered genital mutilation when she was four years old.

Career

In 2008, she joined

, and has organized workshops and lectures on the visibility of African women, and has been working on projects on sexual reproductive health and the prevention of genital mutilation. She participated in the drafting of a protocol for the prevention and action against female genital mutilation that was approved in June 2013 in

Navarra Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...

in Spain. In 2020 she was part of a team that presented the work that had been done in Navarra in the previous year. Over 200 interventions had been made in Navarra's African community. This included both men and women as there was a growing realisation that men too needed to be persuaded as they can be the power for change.

Writing

In 2015 she published ''Indomable: de la mutilación a la vida'' (Indomitable: From Mutilation to Life), with the Ediciones Península Publishing House, an autobiography, in which she tells her life story.

Publications

* ''Indomable: de la mutilación a la vida'' (Indomitable: from mutilation to life), Ediciones Península, 2015

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sani, Fátima Djarra 1968 births Living people Bissau-Guinean women Bissau-Guinean health activists People from Bissau Activists against female genital mutilation Mandé people Violence against women in Guinea-Bissau