Dead Yovo News...

1. Here's an article from the New York Times that ran several years ago, about the Dead Yovo Market in Africa, although of course that's not what they called it.
2. Here's another one that ran more recently.
3. And another one that says something about Somalian pride and dignity.

Not all publicity is good publicity...

Togo got a lot of coverage several years ago when a woman named Fauziya Kasinga sought asylum in the US to avoid genital mutilation. The New York Times, on September 11, 1996, ran an extensive, well written and thoughtful article about her and her family in Kpalime, Togo. Read a (filched) copy of it.

Eventually, the woman was granted US asylum. Here's the New York Times article, entitled U.S. Grants Asylum to Woman Fleeing Genital Mutilation Rite.