Fátima Djarra Sani

Fátima Djarra Sani (born 1968) is a Guinea-Bissau feminist activist concerned with visibility of African women and preventing female genital mutilation (FGM).

Early life Fátima Djarra Sani was born in Bissau, the country's capital, in 1968. She is an activist against the genital mutilation of women in Guinea-Bissau and represents Médecins du Monde in Africa.

Her family comes from the Mandinga ethnic group. She suffered genital mutilation when she was four years old.

Writing In 2015 she published Indomable: de la mutilación a la vida (Indomitable: From Mutilation to Life), with the Ediciones Península Publishing House, an autobiography, in which she tells her life story.

Publications Indomable: de la mutilación a la vida (Indomitable: from mutilation to life), Ediciones Península, 2015