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Jacinta Wanjiku
Jacinta Wanjiku

 

Growing up without a father figure and mother who distilled chang’aa, Jacinta Wanjiku had an empty childhood. She tells Kelvin Kamau about being forced into early marriage, attempting suicide and being raped by a man she adored and considered a father.

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