Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Kenya'
Religious Beliefs Prevent Kenyan Parents from Seeking Conventional Medicine for Children
by Rachel Muthoni -Kenya- In a bid to keep their religious faith, some Kenyan parents do not take their children to hospitals, even for the most basic immunization. Such parents believe that only God heals and seeking conventional medicine is...
Kenya: Poverty, Alcoholism Blamed for Rising Domestic Violence Against Men
by Rachel Muthoni -Kenya- Cases of domestic violence are on the rise in Kenya. While in the past women were known to receive beatings from their husbands, it seems in recent years that women too are inflicting violence on their...
The Body Worlds Exhibition: Macabre Freak Circus or Exploration of the Human Anatomy?
by Caroline Achieng Otieno -Netherlands- Within my community as in many African communities, death is seen as a great and irredeemable tragedy even when it occurs in old age. The reverence with which the Luo people view their ancestors is...
Inflation in Kenya Drives Women to Commercial Sex Work
by Rachel Muthoni -Kenya- With the current inflation in Kenya, the number of Commercial Sex Workers (CSW) in Nakuru, the capital of the most populated Rift Valley province, is rising steadily – a trend that began after the 2007-2008 post-election...
Lilian Mogiti Nyandoro, Anti-FGM Crusader, Liberates Maasai Women and Girls
by Joyce J. Wangui -Kenya- Though the name Lilian Mogiti Nyandoro may not mean much to those in Nairobi where she is based, in a small village in Kimana, Oloitoktok District her name speaks volumes. She has demystified the female...
With No Money, Kenyan Farmers Find Way to Feed Hungry
by Rachel Muthoni -Kenya- When they hear cries of their fellow countrymen hit by acute food shortage, Kenyan peasant farmers in more productive areas have no money to donate. While they may feel the need and the wish to feed...
Cancer in Kenya Should Not Be A Death Certificate
by Joyce J. Wangui -Kenya- Biopsy, mammogram, and chemotherapy are words all too familiar with cancer patients. Death is another word often at the tip of many tongues as patients describe the disease. Kenyans are coming to terms with cancer,...
Outlawed Female Genital Mutilation Persists in Kenya
by Rachel Muthoni -Kenya- In a bid to retain culture and due to the greed of men who profit by marrying off their daughters, some communities in Kenya still practice Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Section 14 of The Children’s Act...
Pursuit of Greener Pastures in Saudi Arabia Spells Doom for Kenyan Immigrants
by Joyce J. Wangui -Kenya- As the quest for working abroad heightens for many skilled and semi-skilled Kenyans, only a handful understand the implications of working in countries where labor laws are ignored. Media reports of brutality toward foreign laborers...
Food Is Priority for Children Evicted From Kenya’s Mau Forest
by Rachel Muthoni -Kenya- Since they were evicted from the Mau Forest complex two years ago, more than 10,000 families have known no better life than that of suffering, sleeping in the cold, hunger, and lack of access to basic...
“Informal Settlement” Status Discriminates Against Residents in Africa’s Largest Slum
by Liz McGinn -UK- Every year the BBC runs a huge televised fundraising event called Comic Relief. Its aim is to raise as much money as possible for worthwhile causes in the UK and Africa. The fundraising, undertaken by both...
If Only My Mother Told Me I Was HIV-positive
by Rachel Muthoni - Kenya - If only Kenyan society would choose to understand their kin and friends who are HIV-positive, deaths resulting from this virus could be reduced significantly. But the stigma associated with being infected or affected by...
Refusing Silence, Rejecting Simplification:
Kenyan Activist Philo Ikonya Battles Corruption
by Shailja Patel - Kenya - And they asked him: Why do you sing? And he answered, as they seized him: I sing because I sing And they searched his chest But could only find his heart And they searched...
Cultural Stigma and Myth: Disabled Women in Kenya are Vulnerable to Sexual Violence
by Rosemary Okello - Kenya - In the face of escalating of sexual violence in Kenya, women with disabilities are more vulnerable than ever. A recent study by the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA-K) - a women’s rights...
Kenyans Expect Justice from the Waki Commission
by Philo Ikonya - Kenya - On the 17th of December, a year after the country flared up in violence, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga signed an agreement as the first step in what is popularly...
Poor Kenyans Still Grapple with Jigger Infestation
by Joyce J. Wangui - Kenya - Young Kamau carries a heavy bucket of water on his head. Clad in tattered clothes that barely conceal his ill-nourished body, the young boy is aware that the cameras are focused not on...
Kenya’s Kazuri Bead Factory Allows Women from Kibera Slum to Build New Lives
by Sarah Wyatt - USA - Years of hardship and backbreaking labor in the riot-stricken slums of Kibera in south Kenya have worn 18 year old Eshe Koome to the bone. A single mother of two, she walked out on...
Kenya Is Burning: Women’s Voices Are Missing in the Making of the Nation
by Philo Ikonya - Kenya - The women of Kenya have always been aware of injustice in our society, all through the years. And they have fought for justice: in 1922 Mary Nyanjiru faced the colonialist’s gun fearlessly after stating...
A Current between Shores: Leaving Home
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - They leave holding only their children's small hands in their own. A crumpled photo of a relative might find its place among their few possessions. Most often it is nothing more than a prospect—of...
A Letter to Njeri – a Kenyan Sister Who Received Death Threats After the Elections
by Philo Ikonya - Kenya - Dear Njeri, Tonight, I am unable to sleep. You see, my country - our country - is on fire. It is almost the end of February: is it the end of Kenya as we...
Local African Designs Speak the Language of Youth
by Rosemary Okello Kenya Walking through Mefa Creations, a local organization specializing in African designs and located along Ngong Road in Nairobi, you are greeted with bold African colors, local jewelry and clothing made from African fabrics. • Evelyn Odongo...
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