African traditional societies in many countries had their own traditions, customs, beliefs, and values that were practiced, and by disputing them was believed to carry a curse. However, in modern society, people have come to realize that traditions has change within time and some bad practices should be discarded. One of those harmful traditional practices that is affecting negatively, is the physical and the psychological well-being of young women and small girls is the female genital mutilation (FGM). For centuries, women have been socialized to believe that they are not whole without the cut. They are also made to believe that if they are not mutilated (circumcised) they would give birth to dead children or they would not get husbands to marry them, something that was highly valued by the Africans. Uncircumcised girls have undergone a lot of stereotyping and their parents are not given many cattle and goats as dowry as compared to those given for the circumcised ones. Simply because they were not whole women. On the other hand, some circumcised girls lose a lot of blood, others die due to excessive bleeding. Many of them leave school to undergo the rite of passage, after they are considered whole and mature for marriage no matter how young they may be. Others go through untold pain leading to psychological torture, low self-esteem and much more. When girls used to be circumcised in the African tradition, values were taught to them and held firmly, but not anymore. Currently, girls and women are only mutilated, no teaching is done, so the meaning of circumcision has been lost.