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Katoucha Niane Quotes

1960–2008

Katoucha Niane (23 October 1960 – 2 February 2008) was a Guinean model, activist and author. Nicknamed "The Peul Princess" (in reference to her ethnic Fula background), she worked, and later wrote, under the single name "Katoucha".

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Let's draw attention to the religious, medical, psychological and social realities of this ancestral practice

I was inflicted – with no anaesthetic, of course – this very private and irreversible mutilation in the name of ancestral custom

I embodied the most arrogant and admired kind of femininity, I who was supposed to be diminished

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Katoucha Niane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.