Kenya - Girls don’t run the world yet; there is still ground to cover

Saturday October 12 2019
By FAITH ONEYA

Atieno is a pitiful eight-year-old girl in Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye’s poignant poem "A Freedom Song", which is often referred to as Atieno.

She works her fingers to the bone in her aunt's house while her cousins enjoy basic rights and freedoms that she’s denied. Years later, she falls pregnant and bleeds to her death and "meat and sugar are lavished at her funeral".

Continued: https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/Girls-still-have-ground-to-cover/440808-5308004-13pycsnz/index.html