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Mutilated at the age of 5, Halimata Fofana breaks the taboo of excision

2022-09-27T16:53:04.954Z


PODCAST. This 40-year-old writer and director, victim of an excision when she was 5 years old, denounces this genital mutilation in


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Summary.

Halimata Fofana published her second novel at the end of summer 2022 with Éditions du Rocher, "In the shadow of the Rimbaud city".

In this book, she is inspired by her childhood spent between the HLM towers of Longjumeau (Essonne), to once again break the taboo of excision.

When she was 5 years old, the parents of Halimata Fofana forced her to undergo this genital mutilation, prohibited in France, while she was spending holidays with her family in Dakar.

She first buried this trauma, before it resurfaced several years later.

It is in writing that Halimata has found refuge.

On September 8, 2015, she released her first book, "Mariama, l'écorchée vive", inspired by her story, where she denounced this practice which would affect 125,000 women today in France.

For Source Code, Halimata Fofana tells her story at the microphone of Ambre Rosala.

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Credits.

Editorial management: Pierre Chausse - Editor-in-chief: Jules Lavie - Reporter: Ambre Rosala - Production: Raphaël Pueyo and Thibault Lambert - Production and mixing: Julien Montcouquiol - Music: François Clos, Audio Network, Epidemic Sound - Graphic identity: Upian .

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