Kenyan women have played key roles in the legal sphere ... Through her creative writings, she preserved and propagated a rich East African culture, while also positively influencing lives through ...
For example, one of the women Klougart met works in the hotel industry in Europe and travels to Kenya each year to escape her life. Her husband died of cancer 20 years ago and she doesn't want a ...
In July the hacked-up remains of nine women were found stuffed into sacks in a quarry in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. In September Rebecca Cheptegei, a Ugandan Olympic runner who was living in ...
In Kenya, violence against women extends far beyond the athletic ... gender equality and culture. She worked for The Guardian, The Times and The Independent, and regularly contributed articles ...
Legal ambiguity over abortions in Kenya is pushing thousands of women to turn to backstreet clinics. BBC Africa Eye explores how abortion is shrouded in stigma and misinformation. Edith is lying ...
Demonstrations are taking place across major cities in Kenya to protest against the rising cases of femicide and other violence against women. Hundreds have gathered in Nairobi, Nakuru ...
Hours before a nationwide march in Kenya against the rising cases of femicide and other violence against women - a clip was posted on social media that captures how entrenched misogyny is in the ...
Naisimoi explained that many women from her community were expected to fit traditional roles: "They're just there to be married." But the 19-year-old, whose ambition is to be like famed Kenyan ...
This tumbukiza culture is what gave way to variations like Pilau Njeri. Historian Caroline Elkins informs us in her 2005 effort, Britain’s Gulag: Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, that the marked ...