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092 0  305.4 Jallow|bengelska 
100 1  Jallow, Toufah|4aut 
245 10 Toufah :|bthe woman who inspired an African #MeToo 
       movement /|cToufah Jallow, with Kim Pittaway 
246 10 Toufah 
264  1 Lebanon, New Hampshire :|bTruth to Power, an imprint of 
       Steerforth Press,|c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    310 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates|bcolor 
       illustrations|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index 
520    "Toufah is the story of Toufah Jallow, a brilliant and 
       inspiring young woman who, after she was forced to flee to
       Canada from her home in The Gambia, bravely bucked taboo 
       and named herself as a survivor of a sexual assault by the
       country's dictator--launching an unprecedented protest 
       movement. In 2015, Toufah Jallow was the eighteen-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 
       finances to produce and tour a one-woman play about how to
       eradicate poverty in The Gambia, Toufah entered a 
       presidential competition--sometimes called a beauty 
       pageant in the media, but, according to the president, 
       Yahya Jammeh, designed to identify the smart young women 
       of each generation and lend them financial support. Toufah
       won. At first, Jammeh, who had ruled The Gambia all of 
       Toufah's life and styled himself as a pious yet 
       progressive protector of women, behaved in a fatherly 
       fashion toward her, but then he proposed marriage. When 
       Toufah turned him down, he drugged and raped her, with the
       collusion of his cousin. Toufah could not tell anyone what
       had happened. Not only because there was no word for rape 
       in her native language, but because if her parents 
       protested on her behalf they would all be in danger. 
       Jammeh sent his people to follow Toufah, hoping to 
       intimidate and control her. When his cousin sent for her 
       again, she knew she couldn't stay in The Gambia. Hidden 
       under a niqab, a garment she never wore, she made her 
       escape, confiding in no one so she could keep them safe. 
       She fled across the river border to Senegal, where she 
       learned that Jammeh had put in a request to authorities to
       return her as a "runaway teen." Despite mounting pressure 
       from the Gambian government, two Senegalese police 
       officers put her in contact with UNHCR and other human 
       rights organizations and she was issued a visa for Canada.
       Two years later, President Jammeh was deposed. Eighteen 
       months after that, 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."--|cProvided by publisher 
600 10 Jallow, Toufah 
650  0 Women|zGambia|xSocial conditions 
650  0 MeToo movement|zGambia 
650  0 Women|zGambia|vBiography 
650  0 Rape victims|zGambia|vBiography 
650  0 Refugees|zGambia|vBiography 
650  7 Me too-rörelsen|2sao 
650  7 Flyktingar|2sao 
651  7 Gambia|2sao 
653    |5Afr|aRape 
653    Dawit Isaak-biblioteket 
655  7 Autobiographies|2lcgft 
700 1  Pittaway, Kim|4aut