Girls in Africa face a myriad of daunting challenges, including gender-based violence, in navigating life's journey, making informed choices, and overcoming obstacles in trying to attain safe, pleasurable sexuality, free from harassment, coercion, disease, and violence. Culture, tradition, and interpretation of religious tenets objectify females to silence their voice and curtail agency, even in matters pertaining to their sexuality. Gender ideologies and patriarchal power structures essentialize females to restrict life outcomes and opportunities, leading to the low status of females and increasing feminization of poverty. This further exposes females to violence (harassment, rape, and harmful practices). Unfortunately,

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