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The Land of No Men: Inside Kenya’s Women-Only Village

9-8-2017 < Attack the System 91 102 words
 
Pan-Anarchism is for everyone, even abused African women. Broadly 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 More…
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