A Warrior's Cry Against Child Wedding, By Memory Banda

When you think about your life you think about so many options you have to choose from such as: how am I getting my hair, or do I really want to be with him? But can you imagine someone telling you at the age of thirteen that you are ready to have sex and become someones wife? I know at the age of thirteen, I was enjoying being a kid and not worrying about making “grown up” decisions. “A warrior’s cry against child marriage”, by Memory Banda talks about her country Malawi decides at the age of thirteen you are not a child anymore. Instead, the community notice and acknowledging that you are now becoming a women. This means by the age of thirteen parents send their young girls to initiation camp where they you how to please a man. The initiation camp has a day called “ Very Special Day”, this is when the community hire men to come to the camp and have sex with the girls. Some girls end up pregnant or some end up having a sexual transmitted disease. Banda first made a change in her community by standing up to her traditional leader and made him change the law that no girl has to be forced to marry before the age of eighteen. She did not stop there. She and a …show more content…
Banda can speak from a person who lived in Malawi when the camp and marriage was going in on, but not with personal experience. I feel as if she should had recorded and presented a video about the young teens who are dealing with pregnancy and marriage at a young age. I am curious on what is going on in their mind when the girls enter camp to the pregnancy and marriage. Or she could had elaborate more about her sister sister story. The audience just know that her sister have three kids at the age of sixteen, but what about how was her first pregnancy like. I know since having her baby so young and her body not fully developed, was there any complication or life threatening issues that may have