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We Can Decide To Say "No! We Refuse!"
(Anka Fo "Ante")

by Kandia Kouyaté
From the album Stop Excision, produced by Susan McLucas.

* Mother! Father! That woman has a knife, the knife of excision. I don't want to get close to her! (repeated)

We can't do much about the heat and it's hard to make it rain.
We can't do much about a lot of things but we can avoid a lot of pain, if we stop excising our daughters

That would make our lives much easier and our daughters would bless us. Excision is cruel.
* It can spread AIDS.
* We can say "No, we refuse. (repeated)
* Don't cut me! Don't mutilate me!
Don't cut me, so many troubles come from excision.

* Excision causes problems in childbirth (the guy's wife has died)
* It causes troubles in the couple.
At the moment of excision, there can be a hemorrhage

We can't do much about the heat and it's hard to make it rain.
We can't do much about a lot of things but we can avoid a lot of pain,

* My body belongs to me. My body is mine.
* There are other ways of showing courage. (repeated)

* We can say "No! We refuse!" (many times)

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