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Kenya was a British colony from 1888 until 1963. [4] Before colonial rule, women had played important roles in the community, from raising and bringing up children to working on farms and in marketplaces. Under colonial rule, women became increasingly unimportant to the economic system, and their powers and influence soon faded from the public ...
Norms & lifestyle. Maintaining peace and amity, especially between relations, is particularly important for the Kalenjin and ranks high on their scale of values. This type of peaceful relationship is known as Tiliet and is rooted in ancient Kalenjin culture. It is the root word of Tilionutik a person's wider relationship circle.
Feminism in Kenya concerns the organized efforts to improve the rights of the girls and women of Kenya. [1] The modern feminist movement, which took off in the early 1960s and also in the 1970s, gained impetus through the establishment of various organisations such as Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (Women’s Progress) [2] and Kenya Women’s Political ...
22 August 1978. (1978-08-22) (age 46) Political party. Jubilee Party. Alma mater. University of Nairobi. Sabina Wanjiru Chege (born 22 August 1978) is a Kenyan politician and former television actress and radio presenter who is a member of the Kenyan Parliament. She served as the Woman Representative in the National Assembly for Murang'a County ...
Esther Muthoni Passaris OGW (born 20 October 1964) is a Kenyan politician, social entrepreneur and philanthropist.She is the Nairobi County woman representative in the bicameral Kenyan parliament, [4] and a member of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Political Party.
Josephine Kulea is a Kenyan women's rights campaigner. Rescued from female genital mutilation and forced marriage as a child, she has since set up the Samburu Girls Foundation, which has saved more than 1,000 girls from similar practices. Kulea was recognised as an "unsung heroine" by US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger in 2011.
Kenyan. Victoria Rubadiri (born 28 January 1987) is a Kenyan journalist and television anchor with CNN International in Kenya. [1] [2] In 2020, she won the 2020 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. [3] [4] [5] Rubadiri earned a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism in 2009 from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6]
Polygamy is common among traditional communities in Kenya, as well as among the country’s Muslim community. [3] In parliament, the proposed 2014 polygamy bill had initially given a wife the right to veto the husband's choice, but male members of parliament overcame party divisions to push through a text that dropped this clause. [4]