Kakenya ntaiya biography sample

          Kakenya Ntaiya was supposed to follow the traditional path for a Maasai woman.

        1. Shortly completing her bachelor's degree at Randolph-Macon Women's College in , Kakenya became a youth advisor for the United Nations.
        2. As a girl growing up in rural Kenya, Kakenya Ntaiya learned from an early age that her future had already been decided for her.
        3. Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: She would undergo a traditional Maasai rite of passage, female circumcision, if he would let her.
        4. Kakenya Ntaiya, PhD. University of Pittsburgh, Page 5.

          5. As a girl growing up in rural Kenya, Kakenya Ntaiya learned from an early age that her future had already been decided for her..

          Kakenya Ntaiya

          Kenyan feminist, educator, and academic

          Kakenya Ntaiya (born )[2] is a Kenyan educator, feminist and social activist.

          She is the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a primary boarding school for girls in the Maasai village of Enoosaen.[3] The first class of 30 students enrolled in May [4] The center requires that parents agree not to subject their enrolled daughters to female genital mutilation[5] (FGM/C) or forced marriage.[6][7]

          Early life and education

          Ntaiya is the eldest of eight children.[8]Maasai tradition and culture dictated that Ntaiya should be engaged around the age of five, undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) as a teenager, and then leave school to marry.

          Instead, she negotiated with her father that she would undergo FGM if that meant she could continue her education and complete high school.[9]

          Ntaiya holds an undergraduate degree from