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By Biodun Ayeni
Umoja, is a village in the grasslands of Samburu, in northern Kenya, surrounded by a fence of thorns.
Its is the only single-sex community in the whole of Africa.
Umoja in Kenya started out as a refuge for victims of sexual abuse. Fifteen years later the women-only village is thriving.
Umoja (“unity” in Swahili), a village in Kenya , founded in 1990, is an all-female matriarch village located in near the town of Archers Post in Samburu County, 380 km (240 mi) from the capital, Nairobi.
It was founded by Rebecca Lolosoli, a Samburu woman, as a sanctuary for homeless survivors of violence against women, and young girls running from forced marriages.