Only-Women’s lives in a village of Africa

Dozens of families live in a village in the African country of Kenya but not a single man. Now it is coming out from this village that the way for women to get ownership of land. In Kenya, less than two per cent of the strip of land is in the name of women.

Africa: Dozens of families live in a village in the African country of Kenya but not a single man. Now it is coming out from this village that the way for women to get ownership of land. In Kenya, less than two per cent of the strip of land is in the name of women.

When Jane Nolmongan, who lived in northern Kenya thirty years ago, was raped by a British soldier, her husband thrown her out of the house when he came to know of it. After this, she, along with her children, in search of a safe haven, reached a village that is run entirely by women and where no man can come.

Jane worked on the farm, raising eight of her children, living in Umoja village in Samburu County for the past three decades. Now that farm is going to be officially registered in his name, which could not be done in his old life.

98% of the land in Kenya is in the name of men only. In most tribes, not only farm and land, but women are also considered to be the property of father and then-husband. Now 52-year-old Jane says, “This village has been our support. We have worked together here to improve our lives and have explained to each other the importance of women’s rights.”

In the village of Umoja, settled in the Samburu women’s shelter in 1990, women who have escaped sexual harassment, evicted from their homes, property or children, escaped from child marriage or circumcision, find their whereabouts. . Now the administration of this county has arranged for these women to register grazing land in their name, i.e. title deed. In the already existing social system, women may never get this right. Now the women here are motivating the land to be done in the name of women in the surrounding villages and communities.

Henry Lenayasa is the head of the administrative unit in which the village of Emoja comes. Here he describes the initiative of women to acquire land ownership as “an example of increasing awareness across the region”. Kenya’s law already gives every citizen of the country equal rights to property, but traditionally, he has only sons from fathers. It is done in the name of the women, and nothing comes in the name of the women. But soon, the women of Umoja will be able to get the legal right on the land, which they have bought with their own savings of many years and the number of donations from the people.

In Swahili, ‘Umoja’ means unity. It was started by a woman named Rebecca Lollosoli, when she was attacked and injured by a group of men protesting against the circumcision of women. While undergoing treatment for his injury, he thought of making such a village where the men are not allowed to come. At that time, more than 50 families were living in the village, starting with 15 women. Here women have also built themselves from home to schools. Women have been maintaining their own and family by selling honey and things made by hand.

Jane has made children so capable of reading and writing that one of her sons now works in the police, and a daughter is becoming a journalist and making others aware of their rights.

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