I know you have a testimony to give! Do it for solidarity and for human rights in our homes. FGM is a crime against humanity. We are working on a platform from where Maasai men and all others who want to support us, can give their testimonies on how FGM has affected their lives. We will soon be online
We have now known that we don’t need it any longer. We must have had enormous use of it, as a tool for social management and welfare distribution. I can only think that our culture sustained the vise as a tool to do good for our society. I claim to belief this due to the faith I have for my people revealed in the heritage and stability our culture has had since the beginning. The sustainability of this culture would be the reason why they used what is locally available in their welfare.
I suppose they cut the girls to prevent them from seeking foreign men while their husbands were away following rain seasons with their cows. Their home security and internal intelligence taught them Anatomy. They knew what tool to suppress. There was the urge of keeping the ethnic group pure.
They cut our sisters and mothers, to keep us together against the Other, who was perceived as a threat. Today, we have a national security force(of course when it is not turning against us),passports, for those of us who are lucky enough have access to such basic rights. Many of our Maa people don’t even know what a Passport is and why we need it. And above all, we want to belief that we belong to the Kenya we want.
Today, we have, or so we long for, a fair welfare state, that shall protect us, and re-distribute well-fare among its citizens without discrimination. We still have to enjoy this right though.
It is evident that our people aren’t any barbaric! They did all what they had to do, to ensure the survival of the Maa people.
While we are working on the welfare, it is our fundamental belief that FGM belongs to the gone world. We declare that we need not any more to identify our women by the cut of the razor. Our women can/should provide for themselves now! We are all born free.
But conservatives would still ask how we would know that they are our girls.. The answer to them is long but fornow I can only contra-question.. Who is your people? If we want to identify who our people are, we need only to see their proper identification documents provided by our nation. Our girls can take Matatu like everybody else to Nyayo house and get a national passport or ID card for that matter.
This, does not mean however, that we loose ourselves. But dropping FGM isn’t dropping our identity because FGM has never been our “authentic” identity.
As men of our society, we claim the right to choose our women therefore we prefer them as the nature created them. Say no to FGM Now.
Saidimu Ole Ngais.
