# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fauziya-kassindja
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:26:51.002Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fauziya-kassindja"
name: "Fauziya Kassindja"
slug: "fauziya-kassindja"
description: "Fauziya Kassindja, also known as Fauzia Kasinga, is the author of Do They Hear You When You Cry? an autobiographical story of her refusal to submit to kakia, the Togo ritual of female genital mutilation, and a forced marriage. In 1994 she fled Togo and traveled first to Germany, where she obtained a fake passport, and then to the United States where she immediately informed immigration officials that her documents were false and requested asylum."
tagline: "Togolese writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.79
  momentum:             14.21052631578947
  historical:           5.273110666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauziya_Kasinga"
    title: "Fauziya Kasinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauziya_Kassindja"
    title: "Fauziya Kassindja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauziya_Kassindja"
    title: "Fauziya Kassindja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fauziya_Kassindja"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauziya_Kasinga"
    title: "Fauziya Kasinga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauziya_Kassindja"
    title: "Fauziya Kassindja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52513035"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump