Chart-topping musician Smarty visits a school in Ouagadougou to talk about FGM. In Burkina Faso,
76% of women and girls have undergone FGM despite the practice being illegal. Smarty uses music to address the complex social norms that underpin the practice. ‘To end FGM, we need to speak to the whole community. A love of music is universal here – music is how we will be heard, it is how we will be noticed. Young people hold the power to end FGM in one generation. They are tomorrow’s parents who will protect their children, the leaders who will abandon FGM’
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