Kassindja, Fauziya, 1977-

found: Do they hear you when you cry, 1998:CIP t.p. (Fauziya Kassindja) bk. jkt. (b. in 1977 in Kpalime, Togo, Africa; now resides in Alexandria, Va.)

found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Kassindja, Fauziya; autobiographer / memoirist, women's rights advocate; born 01 January 1977 in Togo; attended Saint Prosper's College; escaped from an imposed marriage via Accra, Ghana, to Düsseldorf, Germany; sought assylum in the U.S., spent sixteen months in various American detention centers and prisons, fighting what seemed an impossible legal battle to have her appeal for asylum accepted; on 13 June 1996 received political asylum from the United States based on the threat of female genital mutilation; recorded her life story in Do They Hear You When You Cry?, which has been translated into many languages; became a member of the advisory board of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies founded by Musalo (1999))