She also became involved with Forward, an organization that works against ritual circumcision, and of which she eventually became the vice president. While living in Germany, Korn met the man she would eventually marry. She was finally sent to Germany to receive surgery to straighten her fingers and toes that had curled due to her ailment. The harsh treatment left her ill with a severe infection that eventually left her with rheumatism, and her condition worsened steadily. Although her childhood was happy, she was part of a culture that believed in ritualistic female circumcision, and at the age of eight she was forced to undergo the procedure. SIDELIGHTS:įadumo Korn was born into a nomadic tribe in Somalia. (With Sabine Eichhorst) Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival, Rowohlt-Taschenbuch (Hamburg, Germany), 2004, translated from the German and with an afterword by Tobe Levin, Feminist Press at the City University of New York ( New York, NY), 2006. ADDRESSES:įorward, Munich, Germany, activist, vice president. Born 1964, in Somalia married children: one son.
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