Femicide is a national crisis

There are pernicious remnants of a culture that view women as objects which can be mistreated or disposed of as one may please.

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Let’s face it, femicide has reached crisis proportions in Kenya. The recent slaying and mutilation of a mother and her two daughters is only the latest gruesome statistic.

It came on the heels of the discovery of women’s body parts in a quarry, and the murders of young women whose bodies were found in hotels.