Tag Archives: Sudan

Female Genital Mutilation: anything to keep a man

by Travels with My Hat Posted on February 20, 2013

On a visit to Djibouti (Horn of Africa) in 1965, I came upon a report on female genital mutilation prepared by a French doctor attached to the Foreign Legion. It described the hideous practices perpetrated on young Somali girls by their female … Continue reading →

Posted in Comment, Culture, Photographs | Tagged Africa, AIDS, boy, circumcision, culture, custom, customs, cut, female, FGM, girls, Horn of Africa, labiaplasty, male, mutilation, practice, snip, Somalia, STD, Sudan | 37 Comments

THE CHOICE IS YOURS

by Travels with My Hat Posted on June 24, 2010

If there is an objection to my sharing this little poem with you I shall be obliged to remove it since it is not my copyright. I took the photograph of the small boy standing on the mud walls in … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged birds, boy, child, Czech poet, God, Miroslav Holub, mystery, poem, Sudan, The Door, words | 3 Comments

SUDANESE WOMEN WHIPPED FOR WEARING TROUSERS

by Travels with My Hat Posted on July 29, 2009

Invited to a World Tourism Organisation conference in Bali in 1993, I was refused admission at the door because I was wearing trousers. Not just any old trousers mind you, but a linen trouser suit, the height of fashion … Continue reading →

Posted in Comment | Tagged Africa, courtcase, dress, hat, Islam, lashing, law, Lubna al-Hussein, Muslim, Omar al-Bashir, punishment, sharia law, Sudan, trousers | 4 Comments

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