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Kakenya Ntaiya (born 1978) [2] is a Kenyan educator, feminist and social activist. She is the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a primary boarding school for girls in the Maasai village of Enoosaen. [3] The first class of 30 students enrolled in May 2009. [4]
The village, founded in 1990, [3] is an all-female matriarch village located near the town of Archers Post in Samburu County, 380 km (240 mi) from the capital, Nairobi. It was founded by Rebecca Lolosoli , a Samburu woman, as a sanctuary for homeless survivors of violence against women , and young girls running from forced marriages or female ...
Nice Nailantei Leng'ete was born in 1991 in the village of Kimana in Maasai country, Kenya.She was orphaned when both her parents died in 1997 and 1998. She spent her early years moving among many different homes in her village.
Standing outside a cow pen in an east Kenyan village, six-year old Kasiva Mutua started to notice rhythms. Mutua, now 31, felt she had a special relationship with sound and tempo – one that ...
Rebecca Lolosoli talks about Umoja Women's Village in Kenya. Lolosoli, born in 1962 in Wamba village, was one of six siblings. She attended Wamba girls' primary school in 1971 but left before completing her education. Lolosoli was born in the village of Wamba in 1962 and was one of a family of six brothers and sisters. [5]
Famous athletes Wilson Kipketer and Wilfred Bungei are also from the same village. [1] She started athletics while at Kapsumbeiywo Primary School and took several events. Since 1998 she attended Sing'ore Girls High School near Iten, famous for producing Kenyan women athletes.
In May 2005, she arrived in a village in West Kenya, begging a Nyatiti master to become a disciple, but she refused. Because the Nyatiti was a sacred instrument that only selected men of the Luo people could play. The name of the Nyatiti master is Okum K'Orengo. He declined her offer repeatedly. But he finally allowed her to live in the village.
Rebeka Njau was born in 1932 in the village of Kanyariri, in Kiambu County to the northwest of Nairobi. [1] [2] Her family was Christian and she recalled the division this created with those around them: It was interesting for us, especially in our home, because we were surrounded by people [that] we would call primitive. They circumcised their ...