Inside Kenya’s Women Only Village 🇰🇪
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2024
- Where the foothills of Mount Kenya merge into the desert, the people of Samburu have maintained a strict patriarchy for over 500 years in northern Kenya. That is, until 25 years ago, when Rebecca Lolosoli founded Umoja village as a safe haven for the region's women. Umoja, which means “unity” in Swahili, is quite literally a no man's land, and the matriarchal refuge is now home to the Samburu women who no longer want to suffer abuses, like genital mutilation and forced marriages, at the hands of men. Throughout the years, it has also empowered women in the districts surrounding Samburu to start their own women-only villages. Broadly visited Umoja and the villages it inspired to meet with the women who were fed up with living in a violent patriarchy.
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Great job 👌
Thank you ❤️
Amazing to know of such a place in Africa! Thank you!
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Good piece. The place exists. It was a result of gender violence and rape from the bristish army, which was around the area. The land in Samburu is communal land, so no one can sell or purchase land. The women group could not purchase the land from the men group.
Thank you for your observation 🙏
Are you from Kenya?
@@Wanafricaa yes from that community
How do they reproduce?
Men are allowed to visit but not allowed to live. And the women can also visit other villages so reproduction can take place anywhere
Nice question 😊👌
@@Wanafricaa okay, last question, what happens when they give birth to boys? Do they give them away?
They keep their male child to a certain age before letting them join their father