In 2015, nineteen-year-old Toufah Jallow dreamed of a scholarship to produce and tour a play about how to eradicate poverty in The Gambia. She entered a presidential competition and won. When Toufah turned down marriage proposals from the dictator of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, he drugged and raped her. In July 2019, Toufah Jallow became the first woman in The Gambia to make a public accusation of rape against him. This is her story of the path to reclaim the future that Yahya Jammeh had tried to steal from her.
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