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Jallow, Toufah.
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Jallow, Toufah.
Rape victims -- Gambia -- Biography.
Sexual abuse victims -- Biography.
Women -- Gambia -- Biography.
Women -- Gambia -- Social conditions.
MeToo movement -- Gambia.
Refugees -- Gambia -- Biography.
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Jallow, Toufah.
Jallow, Toufah.
Rape victims -- Gambia -- Biography.
Sexual abuse victims -- Biography.
Women -- Gambia -- Biography.
Women -- Gambia -- Social conditions.
MeToo movement -- Gambia.
Refugees -- Gambia -- Biography.
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Toufah : the woman who inspired an African #MeToo movement / Toufah Jallow with Kim Pittaway.
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Jallow, Toufah.
Random House Canada, 2021.
Call #:
305
.42096651
J26t
Subjects
Jallow, Toufah.
Rape victims -- Gambia -- Biography.
Sexual abuse victims -- Biography.
Women -- Gambia -- Biography.
Women -- Gambia -- Social conditions.
MeToo movement -- Gambia.
Refugees -- Gambia -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780735282322 (pbk.)
Description:
320 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"In 2015, Toufah Jallow was the nineteen-year-old daughter of the second wife in her Muslim father's polygamous household. Her mother, outwardly conforming, had made sure that her daughter was educated and had ambitions of her own. Dreaming of a scholarship and the support to produce and tour a play about how to eradicate poverty in The Gambia, Toufah entered a presidential competition, sometimes called a beauty pageant in the media, designed to identify the country's smart young women and support their educational and career goals. Toufah won. Yahya Jammeh, the dictator who had ruled The Gambia all of Toufah's life, styled himself as a pious yet progressive protector of women. At first he behaved in a fatherly fashion toward Toufah, but then he proposed marriage. When she turned him down, his cousin lured her to the palace on a pretext, where Jammeh drugged and raped her. Toufah could not tell anyone what had happened. Not only was there no word for rape in her native language, but if she confided in her parents she knew they would take action, exposing them all to Jammeh's wrath, and worse -- his critics were routinely imprisoned, tortured and murdered. To silence and control her, Jammeh had her followed. When his cousin sent for her again, she knew she couldn't stay in The Gambia. Wearing a niqab to hide her identity, she fled to Senegal, telling no one so she could keep them safe. Despite mounting pressure from the Gambian government, which claimed she was a "runaway teen," Senegalese authorities put her in contact with international humanitarian organizations and she found refuge in Canada. Eighteen months after Jammeh was deposed, in July 2019, Toufah Jallow became the first woman in The Gambia to make a public accusation of rape against him. Her testimony sparked marches of support and launched a social media outpouring of shared stories among West African women under #iamtoufah, setting Toufah Jallow on the path to reclaiming the future that Yahya Jammeh had tried to steal from her, a future of advocacy and leadership for survivors of sexual violence in The Gambia and beyond."--From publisher.
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Memoirs.
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Pittaway, Kim.
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