Umoja: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden(2009)
52 min · Documentary · Directed by Jean Crousillac, Jean-Marc Sainclair
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Numerous Kenyan women allege that they were raped by British soldiers from 1970 to 2003 — battered and abandoned by their husbands for bringing "shame on the community" — a number of Samburu women gathered and created "Umoja", a sex-segregated village where only women are allowed permanent residence.
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