Tag: FGM

• But, That’s Not What They Were Fighting For

  with their husbands names, hidden under their teeth…

  rayawambui

  August 25, 2015

  Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Woman in the Two Thousands

  Affirmative Action, Culture, date rape, Daughters, Domestic Violence, FGM, Freedom fighters, freedom of speach, gender based violence, girl child, human rights, Kenya, Nairobi, poetry, prejudice, Rape, statutory rape, the girl child, Women Rights, womens rights

• Throwing stones

        It’s 3:00am, and I can’t get back to sleep. My mind is preoccupied by young faces from yet another FGM Kenya documentary I put myself through yesterday.       It is not a hidden fact, that the age for circumcision is getting younger and younger. Perhaps its in order to combat the increasing awareness of […]

  rayawambui

  February 19, 2013

  Uncategorized, Woman in the Two Thousands

  Children’s Rights, FGM, Health, Kenya, maternal mortality, the girl child

• My Face

  My face has mountains and Valleys, lush, life giving terrain. Seeds latent, waiting for rain.   You come to me, speaking in languages that I don’t understand until I feel them. But those are just stories I hear.   First I must be silent inside.   We must slice, from my temple down. On either […]

  rayawambui

  July 23, 2012

  Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Woman in the Two Thousands

  Culture, FGM, Health, human rights, Kenya, poetry, the girl child, Women Rights