Awa Thiam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Awa Thiam

Feminist from Senegal

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Senegal

Profession: writer, politician, anthropologist, feminist

Nationality: France, Senegal

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Awa Thiam (born 1936) is a Senegalese politician, academic, writer, and activist.
She serves as Senegal's Director of the National Center for Assistance and Training of Women under the Ministry of Women and Children.
She is an advocate against female genital mutilation (FGM), which she speaks on in her 1978 book La Parole aux négresses (also published in English in 1986 as Black Sisters, Speak Out: Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa).
She has a body of work published internationally, in both French and English.
In 1982, she founded the Commission pour l'Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles (CAMS, or Commission for the Abolition of Sexual Mutilation, in English), which fights for the abolition of FGM.
Thiam is among the women featured in the anthology Daughters of Africa.