In conversation with FGM activist Nice Nailantei Leng’ete

For Massai girls, female genital mutilation, or “the cut,” had been a rite of passage for hundreds of years. When it was Nice Nailantei Leng’ete’s turn, she ran away and was shunned by her village. She tells Farah Nasser how she convinced elders to abolish the practice and replace it with girls education.

• Meet the 27-year-old who saved 16,000 girls from genital mutilation