Balakisa Kone

Balakisa Kone spoke of many women being present in the area reserved for cutting. “We are called one by one to start the excision. Some grabbed my feet and some grabbed my hands.”

“I cried when I was being cut,” she recalled.

Balakisa said she will protect her daughter, Aminata, from the social norm.

From the album

WE ARE CALLED ONE BY ONE