Demba Diawara

Demba Diawara
Bornc.1931[1]
NationalitySenegalese
Educationno formal education
Known forleadership of villages to renounce Female Genital Cutting

Demba Diawara (born c. 1931) is an imam and village leader of Keur Simbara in Senegal. He is known for his leadership in encouraging village communities to abandon the tradition of female genital cutting.[2] He knew of the first declarations at the Senegalse village of Malicounda Bambara to abandon FGC in 1997 and he led his village and many more to the first multilateral announcement at Diabougou in 1998.

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