Having banned female genital cutting, his ousting was good for governance, but but not for women.
Jakumba Ceesay was angry. In a far-away capital city, in dimly-lit government offices filled with men, lawmakers were trying to tell her what Gambian women like her could and couldn't do with their own bodies.
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