Yes, maybe you will find a sporadic incident where men demand this, but it is the women who enforce the practice for their daughters and are running away from fathers to do it. And African feminists say we have a lot of other problems. For example, it is frightening to think about how many women are dying in southern Sudan because of the civil war. They are not dying because of circumcision. So it's a different kind of perspective.
Clean water is a big problem, medical care.
The poverty is just grinding. That is why the feminist movement in Africa addresses different issues. This is women controlling other women by the symbolic conquest of the body. That is why education is very important. But I want to be clear that I want this practice eradicated.