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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Sexual abuse
"In 2011, Annick Cojean, senior reporter at Le Monde and special
correspondent for Tripoli, wrote a shock article titled "Gaddafi's
sexual slave", which told the story of Soraya, a twenty-two-year
old Libyan woman who had been kidnapped and held captive since the
age of 15. In 2012, Cojean returned to Libya to continue her
investigation. Her book, Gaddafi's Harem, takes Soraya as its
starting point to recount the fates of so many other women. She has
gone to remarkable lengths - rape is the highest taboo in Libya -
to collect these women's stories." Le Monde Soraya was a schoolgirl
in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of
presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide," on
a visit he was making the following week. This one meeting - a
presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi - changed
Soraya's life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab
al-Azizia, Gaddafi's palatial compound near Tripoli, where she
joined a number of young women who were violently abused, raped and
degraded by Gaddafi. Heartwrenchingly tragic but ultimately
redemptive, Soraya's story is the first of many that are just now
beginning to be heard. In Gaddafi's Harem, Le Monde special
correspondent Annick Cojean gives a voice to Soraya's story, and
supplements her investigation into Gaddafi's abuses of power
through interviews with other women who were abused by Gaddafi, and
those who were involved with his regime, including a driver who
ferried women to the compound, and Gaddafi's former Chief of
Security. Gaddafi's Harem is an astonishing portrait of the essence
of dictatorship: how power gone unchecked can wreak havoc on the
most intensely personal level, as well as a document of great
significance to the new Libya.
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Grafting
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Amy Lundquist
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'A real hero looks like Nice Leng'ete . . . [An] elegant and
inspiring memoir' New York Times Nice Leng`ete was raised in a
Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents
fell sick and died, and Nice and her sister Soila were taken in by
their father's brother, who had little interest in the girls beyond
what their dowries might fetch. Fearing "the cut" (female genital
mutilation, a painful and sometimes deadly ritualistic surgery),
which was the fate of all Maasai women, Nice and Soila climbed a
tree to hide. Nice hoped to find a way to avoid the cut forever,
but Soila understood it would be impossible. But maybe if one of
the sisters submitted, the other would be spared. After Soila chose
to undergo the surgery, sacrificing herself to save Nice, their
lives diverged. Soila married, dropped out of school, and had
children -- all in her teenage years -- while Nice postponed
receiving the cut, continued her education, and became the first in
her family to attend college. Supported by Amref, Nice used visits
home to set an example for what an uncut Maasai woman can achieve.
Other women listened, and the elders finally saw the value of
intact, educated girls as the way of the future. The village has
since ended FGM entirely, and Nice continues the fight to end FGM
throughout Africa and the world. Nice's journey from "heartbroken
child and community outcast, to leader of the Maasai" is an
inspiration and a reminder that one person can change the world --
and every girl is worth saving.
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Unspoken
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Robina Ehana
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Free to Dance
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Tracey Jerald; Cover design or artwork by Amy Queau
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