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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.
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