Kenya is experiencing a femicide epidemic. More than 500 women and girls have reportedly been killed by intimate partners and men known to them since 2016 – with 21 women killed in the country in January alone.
So widespread is the issue that on 27 January, thousands of Kenyan women gathered in cities across the country to call for an end to the deaths.
The epidemic is not a new phenomenon, nor one happening in a vacuum. When violence against women and girls goes unchecked for a long time, it inevitably leads to femicide, argues Stella Bosire, a feminist activist and doctor in Nairobi.
