Yours In Education

This picture takes me back to my America's next model; with aspirations of becoming Africa's...STILL  ME: short, petite, shy yet outspoken, South African, smart, inquisitive...  HER: taller, darker, smart, slimmer, sensitive, Somali, shy yet verbal of her realities current and past... This year was also my first time coming across the procedure 'female genital mutilation'... and it wouldn't be the first; here goes: I remember her chocolate brown skin her tiny eyes beautiful cheekbones and pointed nose her gorgeous smile through tears as she told her story there in my lounge listening her soft voice my dad exclaiming in shock: it wasn't the first time hearing such I remember the smell of the food my mother was preparing for us mouth watering samp and beans coffee tea coming up for dad my senses ignited not in joiy but in disgust and shock shock at society of that time shock at the ';values' instilled in women we will cut