PASTORALIST WOMEN TRAILBLAZERS

Borana, like other pastoralist communities in the northern Kenya, do perceived women/girls as a sub ordinate gender and above all as a low-hanging fruits to be cashed out at will as a source of income through dowry.

“As a young girl, I would come home from school and help my mum sell incense, which she was making at home so that we could get something for food,”

Prof Elizabeth Pantoren, the first female to be awarded a PhD in the Rendille community and the entire Marsabit County, tells nation.africa that women here, have battled many challenges to set this avalanche in motion.