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Thriving women-only village is attacked by jealous locals
By Mike Pflanz in Archer's Post
(Filed: 16/07/2005)
A group of Kenyan women who fled abusive husbands to set up their own women-only community are facing increasingly violent attacks by local men angry at their success.
Turning traditional African patriarchy on its head, 15 women established Umoja village in 1990, as a refuge after their husbands' behaviour forced them to flee their homes.
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