I defied my dad, it paid off

Josephine Rotiken,22,a fourth year Law student at Kabarak University during the interview in Narok.She escaped forced marriage to his father's friend and now on the verge of becoming the first-ever female lawyer in her village. PHOTOS: ROBERT KIPLAGAT

That I am a fourth year law student is nothing short of a miracle. As a 22-year-old woman born into the pastoral community at Olkurto village in Narok North, it is expected that I should have been married many years ago.

In my community, the boy child is treasured more than the girl so while I stayed home, my father took my younger brother to school from a very early age.