A childhood filled with laughter and friends, singing and games—cut short by the circumciser’s knife.
In her early teens, Messania walked the same path as millions of other young girls around the world, first undergoing female genital mutilation to make her marriageable before she was married off to a stranger many years older than herself.
Listen as Messania tells her story from her rural Kenyan home to see how this strong woman—who could have remained just a statistic—found the determination to escape abuse, challenge harmful cultural norms, and sing a new song of freedom, for herself and for girls like her everywhere.
