Land for widows? Not in Kisumu’s Nyahera villages

In 2009, Lydia Akoth Ouma lost her husband of seven years. And for the last ten years, the 35-year-old mother of four has literally been living in hell on earth. She is a squatter in her own one-acre piece of land in Kapuonja, in Kisumu West. She has borne the wrath of being a widow. … Continue reading Land for widows? Not in Kisumu’s Nyahera villages