In 2015, Toufah Jallow was the 19-year-old daughter of the second wife in her Muslim father's polygamous household. Dreaming of a scholarship, she entered a presidential competition purportedly designed to identify the country's smart young women and support their educational and career goals. Toufah won. 
 
Yahya Jammeh, the dictator who had ruled The Gambia all of Toufah's life, proposed marriage, and she turned him down. On a pretext, he then lured her to the palace, where he drugged and raped her. Toufah could not tell anyone.  There is literally no word for rape in her native language, and speaking out would endanger her family. 
 
18 months after Jammeh was deposed, Toufah became the first woman in The Gambia to make a public accusation of rape against him, sparking marches of support and a social media outpouring of shared stories among West African women under #IAmToufah, setting her on the path to reclaiming the future of personal growth and education that Jammeh had  tried to steal from her.
 
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