Name: 【TED】Khadija Gbla: My mother’s strange definition of empowerment (Khadija Gbla: My mother’s strange definition of empowerment)
Uploaded: 2017-11-05T03:19:41.000Z
Duration: 18 min 44 s
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Today I'm going to share my personal journey

Feel free to cry, laugh, cross your legs,

or do anything your body feels like doing.

I'm not going to name the things your body does.

I don't have any diamonds  on me, by the way.

If you have heard of Ebola, well, that's in Sierra Leone as well.

Be seated. You're fine. I was checked before I got here.

Don't ask me why a man needs more than one wife.

He was looking for a heart attack, that's what I say.

When I was three, war broke out in Sierra Leone in 1991.

I remember literally going to bed one night, everything was good.

and people were trying to kill me and my family.

We escaped the war and ended up in Gambia, in West Africa.

Ebola is there as well. Stay away from it.

we didn't know what was going to become of us.

She's a wonderful, smart woman, that one,

"We're going on  a little holiday, a little trip."

and we drove for hours and ended up in a bush

She had a chat with my mom, and went back.

Then she came back and walked away from us into a second hut.

"This is very confusing. I don't know what's going on."

and then she pinned me down on the floor.

I struggled and tried to get her off me, but I couldn't.

Then the old lady came towards me with a rusty-looking knife,

orange-looking, has never seen water or sunlight before.

She took hold of what I now know to be my clitoris,

she took that rusty knife, and started cutting away, inch by inch.

and asked my mom to get off me so this pain will stop,

This old lady sawed away at my flesh for what felt like forever,

she threw that piece of flesh across the floor

as if it was the most disgusting thing she's ever touched.

They both got off me, and left me there bleeding,

crying, and confused as to what just happened.

Very soon, we found that we were coming to Australia,

and this is when you had the Sydney Olympics at the time,

and people said we were going to the end of the world,

there was nowhere else to go after Australia.

We went to Senegal, then France, and then Singapore.

We went to the bathroom to wash our hands.

We spent 15 minutes opening the tap like this.

slid their hand under and water came out,

and we thought, is this what we're in for?

where literally they dumped us in Adelaide, that's what I would say.

"You brought us to the wrong place. You must take us back to Australia."

Yeah. It had to be explained to her that  there were a lot of Asians in Australia

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【TED】Khadija Gbla: My mother’s strange definition of empowerment (Khadija Gbla: My mother’s strange definition of empowerment)

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