The Kenyan Women's Movement in a Changing Political Context
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Date
1993Author
Maria, Nzomo
Type
Book chapterLanguage
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Women of Kenya have a long history of exercising their freedom
of association and assembly within the context of their women's
groups! and organizations. But whether or not women have used the
spaces afforded by these groups as lobbying forums for expressing
demands and influencing policy and institutional changes in their
favor is the big question.
This long history of women organizing themselves into groups
dates back from per-colonial times. The Ngwatio among the Kikuyu,
the risanga among the Gusii, the saga among the Luo and Mwethya
among the Kamba are examples of women's self help movements
with a long history among different ethnic communities in Kenya.
Indeed, the women's group organization is the most dominant and
the most deep-rooted form of women's movement in Kenya. Other
forms of organizations such as trade unionism and cooperatives are
of recent origin and have not yet: attracted significant women
membership or activism to a comparable level as women's groups.
The former movements remain a male domain, while the latter have
entirely or predominantly female participation.
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University of Nairobi
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