Fuambai Ahmadu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4786896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fuambai Ahmadu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fuambai |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmadu |
| SIGNATURE | AHMADU F |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institutes of Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
Dr Tatu Kamau vs The Attorney General and Others
‘[The] average third world woman leads an essentially truncated life based on her feminine gender (read: sexually constrained) and being “third world” (read: ignorant, poor, uneducated, tradition-bound, domestic, family-oriented, victimized, etc.). This, I suggest, is in contrast to the (implicit) self-representation of Western women as educated, modern, as having control over their own bodies and sexualities, and the freedom to make their own de…
Twelve / Equality, Not Special Protection
Response to Fuambai’s Strength by Carlos David Londoño-Sulkin
Previous articleNext article FreeResponse to Fuambai’s Strength by Carlos David Londoño-SulkinFuambai Sia AhmaduFuambai Sia AhmaduAnthropologist, Bethesda, Maryland Search for more articles by this author Anthropologist, Bethesda, MarylandPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreI am incredibly intrigued and humbled that Carlos D…
Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women
Fuambai S. Ahmadu is both a professional anthropologist and an initiated member of the Bondo society of Sierra Leone. This interview with Ahmadu by Richard A. Shweder on the subject of female genital cutting serves to contextualize a submission by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin, who describes the changes of perception he and other members of the audience experienced after a lecture by Fuambai Ahmadu on this subject at the University of Regina on 19 Mar…
Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women
Fuambai S. Ahmadu is both a professional anthropologist and an initiated member of the Bondo society of Sierra Leone. This interview with Ahmadu by Richard A. Shweder on the subject of female genital cutting serves to contextualize a submission by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin, who describes the changes of perception he and other members of the audience experienced after a lecture by Fuambai Ahmadu on this subject at the University of Regina on 19 Mar…
Dr Tatu Kamau vs The Attorney General and Others
‘[The] average third world woman leads an essentially truncated life based on her feminine gender (read: sexually constrained) and being “third world” (read: ignorant, poor, uneducated, tradition-bound, domestic, family-oriented, victimized, etc.). This, I suggest, is in contrast to the (implicit) self-representation of Western women as educated, modern, as having control over their own bodies and sexualities, and the freedom to make their own de…
Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women
Fuambai S. Ahmadu is both a professional anthropologist and an initiated member of the Bondo society of Sierra Leone. This interview with Ahmadu by Richard A. Shweder on the subject of female genital cutting serves to contextualize a submission by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin, who describes the changes of perception he and other members of the audience experienced after a lecture by Fuambai Ahmadu on this subject at the University of Regina on 19 Mar…
Response to Fuambai’s Strength by Carlos David Londoño-Sulkin
Previous articleNext article FreeResponse to Fuambai’s Strength by Carlos David Londoño-SulkinFuambai Sia AhmaduFuambai Sia AhmaduAnthropologist, Bethesda, Maryland Search for more articles by this author Anthropologist, Bethesda, MarylandPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreI am incredibly intrigued and humbled that Carlos D…
Twelve / Equality, Not Special Protection
Dr Tatu Kamau vs The Attorney General and Others
‘[The] average third world woman leads an essentially truncated life based on her feminine gender (read: sexually constrained) and being “third world” (read: ignorant, poor, uneducated, tradition-bound, domestic, family-oriented, victimized, etc.). This, I suggest, is in contrast to the (implicit) self-representation of Western women as educated, modern, as having control over their own bodies and sexualities, and the freedom to make their own de…
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues (3 works) · Genital Health and Disease (3 works) · Female circumcision (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Bodily integrity (1 work)