The thorny trees and dung-caked homes of Umoja village make it resemble any other in Kenya's northeastern Samburu region, except in one key detail - the absence of men. Since it was established over ...

Samburu, Kenya: Samburu County is famous for holding onto retrogressive cultures, which have allegedly caused anguish and pain to women and children. As the rest of the world and Kenyan women opt for ...

A jovial mood marked the official opening in December of the first Samburu cultural museum.The Rhodia Mann Museum of Samburu Culture at the Sasaab lodge in the Westgate Conservancy houses a collection ...

A place for women, by women: that’s what Umoja, a village in Samburu County, northern Kenya, represents. It looks much like other tribal settlements or manyattas – with surrounding grasslands and huts ...

UMOJA, Kenya (Reuters) - The thorny trees and dung-caked homes of Umoja village make it resemble any other in Kenya's northeastern Samburu region, except in one key detail - the absence of men. Since ...

In the first glimmers of the Kenyan morning light, Bilinda Straight wakes to a familiar scene: a home that another woman has built out of local wood, wild sisal and cow hides. Somewhere nearby, she ...

KIBARTANE, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is said among the Samburu people of Kenya that if a woman is not beaten by her husband then she is not loved. Naserian Lyengulai is working to bring ...

Umoja village is home to dozens of families, but no men Women applied for community title to nearby grazing land Women in Kenya own less than 2% of all titled land UMOJA, Kenya, March 22 (Thomson ...