Tarzan was a racist

For the first time since the age of three, successful London fashion model, Samira Hashi,

has returned to the country where she was born, Somalia -  :: ::

one of the most troubled regions in the world

             

All I knew of Somalia was from the media :

- the malnutrition, famine, drought, terrorists, pirates and bloodshed  ::redface::

Samira was signed by a modelling agency when she was 17 years old :

                               

My trip ended in Hargeisa in Somaliland, an area that is seen as safer than the rest of the region,

but where female genital mutilation remains so common that 98% of women have had the procedure done to them.

It's one part of my Somali culture that I refuse to accept.

Yikes !!  :shocked: