The US president could use his Africa trip to play a historic role in the fight to eliminate FGM if he chooses to
The return of a son of the diaspora to his ancestral homeland is always an emotional moment, even more so if this returned son is the first African-American President of the United States. That makes President Obama’s visit to Kenya and Ethiopia an important and inspirational occasion for Africans.
But President Obama is also visiting a region of Africa with enormous problems and one in particular that receives sparse attention from his administration: female genital mutilation (FGM). This barbaric practice is destroying the lives of millions of girls in both Kenya and Ethiopia and 25 other countries in Africa. More than one in four girls in Kenya are subjected to FGM; in Ethiopia it is three out of four girls who are mutilated.
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