Kakenya ntaiya biography samples

Kenyan feminist, educator, and academic

Kakenya Ntaiya (born 1978)^[2] is a Kenyan educator, feminist and social activist.

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She is the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a primary boarding school for girls in the Maasai village of Enoosaen.^[3] The first class of 30 students enrolled in May 2009.^[4] The center requires that parents agree not to subject their enrolled daughters to female genital mutilation^[5] (FGM/C) or forced marriage.^[6][7]

Early life and education

Ntaiya is the eldest of eight children.^[8]Maasai tradition and culture dictated that Ntaiya should be engaged around the age of five, undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) as a teenager, and then leave school to marry.

Instead, she negotiated with her father that she would undergo FGM if that meant she could continue her education and complete high school.^[9]

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