Girls in the Wild Fig Tree
''A real hero looks like Nice Leng''ete . . . [An] elegant and inspiring memoir'' New York Times
Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents fell sick and died, and Nice and her sister Soila were taken in by their father''s brother, who had little interest in the girls beyond what their dowries might fetch. Fearing "the cut" (female genital mutila...
''A real hero looks like Nice Leng''ete . . . [An] elegant and inspiring memoir'' New York Times
Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents fell sick and died, and Nice and her sister Soila were taken in by their father''s brother, who had little interest in the girls beyond what their dowries might fetch. Fearing "the cut" (female genital mutila...
