Other award recipients included Kakenya Ntaiya, a young Kenyan woman, who negotiated with her father and agreed to undergo female circumcision, if he allowed her to go to school.
When the activist heard that Museveni wants to outlaw female circumcision, it brought back memories of her own experience of being "stitched like a curtain," she said.
Recent surveys also show that two-thirds of Egyptian girls aged 10-14 have been subjected to the traditional practice of female circumcision.
