[psolace]

Don't even bother reading it unless you want to find out that this swiss woman who lived in an upper middle class swiss family decides while on holiday to chuck with a moran who lives with his mom in a twig and hide shack somewher between heaven and earth and after having her baby decides that life as a moran's wife, who by the way can't even hold it up long enough, isn't worth it and takes off back home to mama to howl her life out in a book. I can't even stand the thought of it being in the movies. And on Waris Dirie, FGM ain't no joke and at least she is using her publicity to do something about it. Imagine having them cut off your vital sexual organs and sew the opening only to reopen it when giving back and then,yes sewing it up again. It ain't her fault that she didn't go to school but at least she has 3 books out which is better than those who have never done much for others in their life.

[Jibril Cessay]

I haven't read the book, but i'll tell u something: even Westerners practice FGM. FGM in the west is called Vaginoplasty whereby the pudash is reorganized in the name of beautifying it. Those lips gently suckled in cunnilugus are either shorted or removed among other things. Pudash is sacred property...whether it it is sunna, infibulation, excision or vaginoplasty..circumcision is circumcision.

I don't like the Waris Dirie book because it demonizes Somalia. I believe u can find something beautiful, memorable even in purported hell.

[pa]

>Don't even bother reading it unless you want to find out that
>this swiss woman who lived in an upper middle class swiss
>family decides while on holiday to chuck with a moran who
>lives with his mom in a twig and hide shack somewher between
>heaven and earth and after having her baby decides that life
>as a moran's wife, who by the way can't even hold it up long
>enough, isn't worth it and takes off back home to mama to howl
>her life out in a book. I can't even stand the thought of it
>being in the movies. And on Waris Dirie, FGM ain't no joke and
>at least she is using her publicity to do something about it.
>Imagine having them cut off your vital sexual organs and sew
>the opening only to reopen it when giving back and then,yes
>sewing it up again. It ain't her fault that she didn't go to
>school but at least she has 3 books out which is better than
>those who have never done much for others in their life.

Waris dirie didn't actually write the books because she is semi-literate.A westerner took advantage of the commercial viability of her fame and the fact that she is somali to expoit the FGM angle.Some of these cases are also exaggerated.It is true that FGM is a bad practice but what right do people who don't really understand its significance or occurence like even Alice Walker (who also took advantage of this theme to write a book)have to cast aspersions?

[muzalendo]

i read it (Not in english) and found it really funny except that she said in kenya we bathe with omo.She was made to shave all the hair and walked around with a blue head in the sun

[muzalendo]

the episode she travelled with jamaican passport with the name marilyn munro Lmao

And where the sons of the fake marriage kazee chased after her real funny

[mimie]

I know in a few weeks i will be able to give constructive criticism towards this book, but for now, all i will say is ....why do aging junguz go to Massai land to become elders? what is this obsession with masoos anyway? touristic angle kando, i would be quite offended if some people with no inkling whatsoever about my life decided they wanted to take a piece of my culture and just play with it, which is how i see it.

I was reading Bridget Jones The edge of reason, the other day. so her mother is excited because she is travelling to Kenya, for her (she's British of course) the epitome of living. she comes back with this kiuk jamaa whose pretty intelligent (i mean the dialogue was- unless of course the writer didnt know better) who is apparently learned in the ways of old kiuk ways. me, i was jazzed by the way the buzz word in that book was 'hakuna matata' said whenever someone felt inclined to. toursistic mumbo jumbo kill me inside all the time, because it always ends up reducing someone or sth to monetory value, in which case then what is the real/ true purpose of exploring the native???????

[nyar kobong26]

in germany the book is a hit,and the film is more than marvelous,i bought the book in a bookstore in frankfurt,iso far i did let it out to 20 of my german galfrinds.

[Kenyan by Marriage]

Leaving Nairobi to come back to the states in line at the British airways terminal. A mzungu woman with the "White Masai" book and Masai spelled wrong of course on the paper cover. She was telling a mzungu male friend of hers in the line about this white woman staying one night in Maasai land over night. Saying something about how spooky it was in the dark with wild animals around.

Without any respect and being totally ignorant the white man said out loud laughing "HOW LONG BEFORE YOU STEP INTO SOMETHING AT NIGHT?" he was simply referring to how long would it take for someone to step in some animal ****?

I'm a mzungu and have a Kenyan as my wife. Even if I was not married to her I would be offended by his statement. He showed total lack of respect! In his mind he had already made up the idea that Maasai are uneducated and they live in a savage area in Kenya. Most Kenyans who have not been over here in the states, if they would have heard him say that, they would not have known what he meant by it. Unless you live over here to pay attention to Americans for a while and how they talk with disrespect about other peoples cultures.