Dying for My Daughter

Ultimate Conflict, published in 1999 in Banjul, (later republished in a comprehensive version for an international readership under the title Dying for My Daughter) is a short novel of 52 pages . The narrator, Umar tells us about his father’s decision to circumcise his (Umar’s) daughter who is living up-country with her mother, Amina, in Umar’s family compound. Everything started when he got a phone call from his wife informing of her father-in-law’s decision. Umar, a senior civil servant living in the city, tries to reason with his father. The latter, not wanting to see his authority undermined, invokes tradition, religion… to justify his decision. This book deals with the sensitive question of female circumcision.

As the story has been slightly modified, we will soon upload the new review of Dying for My Daughter.