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SiA Inc. 2 Year Review
January 2015 - January 2016
July to December 2015
SiA Inc.
Regina, Canada. 8 day In-depth
inter view and case-study for paper titled
Fuambai’s Strength by anthropologist
Carlos Londono Sulkin, a Professor in the
Department of Anthropology, University
of Regina. Essay is forthcoming in HAU:
Journal of Ethnographic Theory.
SiA Inc. is a boutique sole proprietorship owned by anthropologist
and independent scholar Fuambai Sia Ahmadu. SiA Inc. includes
the U.S. based 501C3 non-profit advocacy organization, All Women
are Free to Choose and subsidiary, Sierra Leone Women are Free
to Choose registered in Freetown as well as SiA Magazine and the
Miss Sierra Leone USA Leadership and Scholarship pageant
(MSLUSA - formerly Miss Sierra Leone DC).
January to June 2015
• Relaunch of SiA Magazine on February 6, 2014
to mark the beginning of the world’s first challenge to
Zero-Tolerance Anti-FGM Policies and Legislation directly
from affected women.
• TV and radio interviews discussing SiA Magazine and
relevant issues
Fuambai Sia Ahmadu, left
with Zeinab Badawi, right
Fuambai is invited to join several distinguished panelists
on platform of BBC’s Global Questions on Gender and
Equality in Africa broadcast in Nairobi, Kenya which
aired on November 14, 2015.
• Responses to contact forms enquiries from website
• Market research for prospective audience and
grassroots outreach
Fuambai is honored with Guest Lecture invitation sponsored by
renown Lecture Fund of Georgetown University, December 2nd, 2015.
Presentation title: “Is mutilated to circumcised as female is to male?”
January to June 2016
• SiA Inc. launches Ain’t I a Woman Campaign, kick-starting
fundraising for operational costs of AWAFC and
SiA Magazine. Raised nearly $2,000 in first four weeks.
• Creation of Female Genital Surgery Advisory Whatsapp
Group of well-educated, professional circumcised
women opposed to negativity of anti-FGM campaigns
Fuambai is Invited as a guest on BBC HArdTalk on
January 11, 2016. moderated by Stephen Sackur.
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• Formal inquiries made to U.S. Rep. Crowley’s office
to register opposition of African women’s community
groups to Zero-Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
Act. Images of Rep Crowley
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