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Friday 12 December 2014

Young Kenyan Women Given For A Dowry Of 20 Goats & Three Camels


This is the moment that girls, some as young as 14, are traded by their families for livestock as part of a traditional ceremony in rural Kenya which marks their passing into womanhood. Before the ritual takes place the girls are isolated for more than a month, meaning many are not aware they have been bargained away until their new husbands come to collect them. Another part of the ceremony sees the women beat a cow into submission before the men kill it with a single stab wound to the heart.

Struggle: A girl from the Pokot tribe in Kenya tries to escape after being sold as a bride by her parents in return for a dowry of livestock
Desperate: Life is a constant struggle for the women of the Pokot tribe as the people are also known to practice female genital mutilation
Fight: A girl grips on to her parents' arms before being taken away by her new husband in Kenya as part of a tribal ceremony

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