Complex sentence: The stand-off turned FGM into a focal point of the Kenyan independence movement; the 1929--1931 period is known in the country's historiography as the female circumcision controversy.
Split into simpler sentences: The stand-off turned FGM into a focal point of the Kenyan independence movement. The 1929--1931 period is known in the country's historiography as the female circumcision controversy.