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Somali social scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amina Mahmoud Warsame is a Somali social scientist[1] who served as executive director of Nagaad, a women's group in Hargeisa Somaliland.[2] Co-author of Social and Cultural Aspects of Female Circumcision and Infibulation: A Preliminary Report (1985), she was one of the early voices raised in Africa against female genital mutilation, along with Raqiya Abdalla, Asma El Dareer, Efua Dorkenoo, and Nahid Toubia.[3][4]
Warsame lived in Sweden after fleeing Somalia to escape the Somali Civil War.[2] She helped found the Somaliland Women's Research and Action Group (SOWRAG), and in 2005 she stood for a seat in Somaliland's parliament, one of the first women to do so.[5]
Warsame was awarded a master's degree in human development by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.[2]
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