KENYA: Eleven-year-old Shiluni Shirim glows in her traditional Maasai regalia as she delivers an acceptance speech at Rombo Girls Primary School in Oloitoktok, Kajiado County.
She had just won the cat-walk in a pageant to showcase the girls’ physical beauty, intellect and temerity as a precursor to the African Medical Research Foundation (Amref) community-led alternative rites of passage (ARP) ceremony.