The graveyard cannot pray by Baba Gauteh Jallow

A Gambian journalist goes to war with his own father over the right to keep his daughter uncut — and discovers how deep the roots of tradition run in people he loves. Jallow spent years publicly opposing the Jammeh dictatorship before being forced into exile in the United States, and this memoir turns that same unflinching gaze inward, onto the battle he fought within his own family when his father insisted his infant daughter undergo female genital mutilation. What makes it unusual is that Jallow does not cast his father as a villain — he understands exactly where the impulse comes from, how tradition, religion, and community are bound up in it — which makes the fight harder and the stakes clearer. Praised as one of the first accounts of this battle told from an African man's perspective.

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