A Place Where Women Rule
By Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, July 9, 2005

Rebecca LolosoliTen years ago, a group of Kenyan women that had been raped and, as a result, abandoned by their husbands and shamed by their community, established the village of Umoja, which means unity in Swahili, and decided no men would be allowed to live in their circular village of mud-and-dung huts. Lead by their charismatic matriarch, Rebecca Lolosoli, the village has become a haven for women suffering from abuse, and severely challenged the power structure of their male dominated tribe.

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