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Kenyan Women Fight Corruption With Sex


Society & Culture  (tags: Kenya, politics, ethics, activists, women, rights, society )

Dee
- 221 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Kenya is a country bitterly divided along political and ethnic lines, and a year after election protests turned into widespread tribal violence, bitter political rivalry threatens the country's security again.
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Dee C. (514)
Thursday April 30, 2009, 5:32 pm
"But this time a group of women activists say they are ready to fight not with machetes or guns but with sex.

Talk to members of any tribe within Kenya, and most are willing to recite negative stereotypes about one another. Last year that tribal tension took a violent turn during post-presidential election violence that killed more than 1,000 people and displaced nearly half a million.

And despite signing a power-sharing agreement last year, the political parties of President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have continued to wrangle over power."
 

Jessie Cross (303)
Saturday May 2, 2009, 12:40 am
Trust WOMEN to think of a way to get people talking!! :)
 

Dee C. (514)
Sunday May 3, 2009, 7:45 pm
She certainly got their attention..
 

pam w. (37)
Monday May 4, 2009, 8:01 am
Well--if it worked for Lysistrata---

I copied this article for a Kenyan couple living in Nairobi. They wrote back that discussing sex openly in media is "taboo" in Kenya and they don't hold out much hope/support for the idea.
 

Dee C. (514)
Monday May 4, 2009, 9:33 am
Well that is the point to have all support it..Yes it is taboo..but should not be and some at least are trying to change it..'I hope for their sake it does work..that they don't give up..Silence and fear will only keep them where they are..and that is not a good place..
 
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