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2. Sofiya Nzau - Wikipedia

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   Career. Sofiya Nzau worked as a street vendor and domestic helper in Thika from 2015 to 2020. After the COVID-19 pandemic reached Kenya, she quit her jobs in December 2020 and became a songwriter. Her husband, a music producer, supported her. She wrote several songs in the Kikuyu language, which she uploaded as sound and language packages on ...

3. Amani (musician) - Wikipedia

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   Amani. Cecilia Wairimu (born 28 November 1980), [1] better known by her stage name Amani, [2] is a Kenyan singer and songwriter. Her contributions to the Kenyan music industry have earned her several coveted accolades, including the Best Female category at the 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards, Pearl of Africa Music Awards, Kisima Awards, and Chaguo ...

4. Feminism in Kenya - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Kenyan activists are on a mission to end gender-based ... - AOL

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   Odipo Dev, a Kenyan research firm, says at least 500 women in Kenya were killed because of their gender from January 2016 to December 2023. Migwi, a survivor of domestic violence herself, says she ...

6. 'I can't sleep': What an athlete’s murder tells us about ...

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   A survey by Africa Data Hub found that between 2016 and 2023, there were more than 500 reported cases of women being killed in Kenya. "In 75% of cases, killings were committed by a person who knew ...

7. Women in Kenya - Wikipedia

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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 ...