From Equity Now Facebook post
- "It is with deep sadness that we learn today of
the passing of our friend and colleague, Efua Dorkenoo, OBE. Efua has
been a truly outstanding voice for women and girls around the world. She
spearheaded the Africa-led work to end female genital mutilation (FGM)
for over three decades. Our thoughts are with her family and friends."
- "Gloria Steinem, who had written an
introduction to “Cutting the Rose,” and who was one of Efua’s closest
American friends, e-mailed, calling her a “miracle of hope and change,”
and saying that there was “no way to measure the loss of the courage,
compassion and effectiveness that Efua Dorkenoo brought to the struggle
for women’s human rights. #EndFGM "
- The New Yorker article: "Efua Dorkenoo, the Ghanaian feminist who died last weekend of cancer, at
sixty-five, was the warrior-in-chief in the ongoing battle against
F.G.M.—the marginally less traumatizing way for women to utter the words
“female genital mutilation.” Millions of women in Africa and throughout
the countries of its post-colonial diaspora revered her; they called
her Mama Efua and, with pride, urgency, and not a little fear, followed
her lead.
