Kenya | Homophobia | Marriage | Africa
Is Marriage Just a Joke Pt 2 — Village Where Women Marry Women
They say it has nothing to do with love or sex & gay relationships are illegal in Kenya and Tanzania
Friday, 21 October 2022
By: TB Obwoge
In a southwestern Kenyan village near the border with Tanzania, Grace Boke, a 19-year-old mother of three girls, lives with her wife — a woman who was unable to bear her own children.
They were married under “nyumba mboke”, a practice which allows for woman-to-woman unions, despite the fact that gay marriage is criminalised in Kenya.
“My father forced me to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) when I was very young, in class two, and immediately after that, I was involved with a man who made me pregnant and disappeared. My parents were very poor and decided to give me away for four cows to a woman with no children. She is now my partner,” Boke told Al Jazeera.
