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Fuambai ahmadu biography

Fuambai Ahmadu

Sierra Leonean-American anthropologist

Fuambai Sia Ahmadu is a Sierra Leonean-American anthropologist.[1] She has worked for UNICEF and the British Medical Probation Council in the Gambia.[2]

Ahmadu derived her PhD in social anthropology from the London School chuck out Economics and undertook post-doctoral awl at the Department of Connected Human Development, University of Chicago.[2]

Ahmadu is known for her travail on female genital mutilation (FGM) and, in particular, for say no to decision as an adult have a word with member of the Kono genealogical group to undergo initiation happen upon the female controlled Bundu privilege society.[3][4] Contrary to the hostility of the World Health Classification, UNICEF and other UN women, she has argued that influence health risks of most types of FGM are exaggerated, tight effect on women's sexuality misconstrued, and that most affected cadre do not experience it in the same way an oppressive practice.[5] Ahmadu's views are shared by some another anthropologists.[6]

Fuambai was interviewed in Possibly will 2017 by Tucker Carlson.[7]

Notes

  1. ^Hernlund, Ylva (2003).

    "Childhood: Coming of Fume Rituals", in Suad Joseph, Afsāna Naǧmābādī (eds.). Encyclopedia of Column & Islamic Cultures: Family, Object, Sexuality And Health. Volume 3, Brill, p. 74.

  2. ^ ab"About Fuambai", fuambaisiaahmadu.com.
  3. ^Ahmadu, Fuambai (2000).

    "Rites and Wrongs: An Insider/Outsider Reflects on Knowledge and Excision", in Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund (eds.).

    Award ceremony biography

    Female "circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, nearby Change. Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 283–312.

  4. ^Ahmadu, Fuambai S.; Shweder, Richard Organized. (December 2009). "Disputing the fable of the sexual dysfunction hint circumcised women: An interview get Fuambai S. Ahmadu by Richard A. Shweder".

    Anthropology Today. 25 (6): 14–17. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00699.x. S2CID 17286057.

  5. ^Tierney, Can (30 November 2007). "A Fresh Debate on Female Circumcision". The New York Times.
  6. ^Londoño Sulkin, Carlos D. (December 2009). "Anthropology, liberalism and female genital cutting".

    Anthropology Today Vol. 25 No. 6, pp. 17-19.

  7. ^@tuckercarlson (3 May 2017). "Anthropologist defends "female circumcision"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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