Samburu: The fight against child marriage

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Samburu county, in northern Kenya, is one of many places where it is normal for girls as young as 11 to be married, often to men more than three times their age. These marriages are additionally traumatic because the child brides are forced to undergo female genital mutilation the day before the wedding. For this documentary Lisa-Marie Misztak meets Josephine Kulea, a remarkable Samburu woman on a quest to stop these practices deeply embedded in her culture. Lisa-Marie also meets the girls Josephine has taken under her wing, who are now rediscovering childhood and getting an education.

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0:00.0	What's up y'all, I'm René Montgomery,
0:02.0	and my podcast Untold Legends,
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0:17.9	Stay listening at the end of this podcast
0:19.8	to find out more.
0:26.8	This documentary,
0:27.9	Samburu the fight against child marriage,
0:30.5	contains content you may find upsetting.
0:43.4	Sara, not her own name, is 13.
0:46.6	She's on her way to her homestead
0:48.4	about an hour's drive
0:49.7	beyond Maralau in Northern Kenya.
0:52.4	The landscape is arid,
0:54.1	sun-baked grassland,
0:55.8	with just a few thorned trees
0:57.5	and the occasional string of bony cattle.
1:00.4	It's good drive.
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