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Risper Oketch looking at the house she built 20 years ago after defying cultural beliefs that prohibit women from constructing houses.[Benard Lusigi, Standard]
When Ms. Risper Oketch, 60, decided to build her own two-bedroom mud house in Odiado village, Funyula Constituency, back in 1993, she knew she was crossing a dangerous cultural line.
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