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Kakenya Ntaiya Finds Freedom in Education

10 March 2010

In this interview, Kakenya Ntaiya talks about the freedom she has found in education. Tracing her path back to childhood, Kakenya remembers her family's hardships and the constricting nature of traditional Maasai values on her future. But Kakenya would not accept her family's selection of a husband-to-be for her at age five; and she was certainly not going to let generations of ritual and multiple father-figures with a limited perception of her potential stand in the way of her own dreams. Instead, Kakenya - with the support of her mother - rallied toget… Video by YouTube channel.

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