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By Morenike Taire & Funmi Ajumobi The world marked the 2021 annual International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) within the context of COVID-19 under the theme, ‘No Time for Global Inaction: Unite, Fund and Act to End Female Genital Mutilation’. On the occasion, Dr Antor Odu Ndep, a public health practitioner, researcher and a Senior Lecturer at University of Calabar, in this interview, speaks about her unforgettable experience of circumcision twice and the excruciating pain of losing her sister to the same process. Cultures Majority of our cultures perform FGM as a ceremony to welcome a girl into womanhood. It used to happen in my grandmother’s time. She told me the female genital cutting ceremony was a time to show that you were a high class woman, seen as higher than other women. If a girl that is not circumcised is talking, you can interrupt and that girl will have nothing to say again. ....