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She goes by the name of Waris Dirie, a female Somalian desert nomad who lived to tell her story of pain and emotion growing up as a Somalian woman. The novel ‘Desert Flower’, written by Waris Dirie herself is about the revealing yet inspiring journey of her life, as she was introduced to the ‘Somalian womanhood’, at just the age of five, imagine the brutality on being mutated on just a rock in the middle of the desert, being left alone under a small tree with hardly any shade protecting you from the fiery hot sunrays being let off. Any minute you could die, the cause of death may be being bleed to death or an infection later on causing death. A few years later having an arranged marriage to a sixty year old man you didn’t even know, running away and escaping to England to becoming a model to then later on becoming an ambassador of the UN. (United Nations). These are some of the many experiences Waris Dirie went through during her journey of life. ‘Somalian womanhood’ was a small part of Waris’s life which impacted a notorious way to her life. At just the age of five Waris was circumc...

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