Bereaved then evicted by in-laws: Kenya's widows fight disinheritance

The law supposedly protects widowed women, but patriarchal culture and colonial-era legal influences often win out, leaving women in povertyWithin months of the death of her husband in 2014, Doreen Kajuju Kimathi, from Meru, eastern Kenya, was told that his bank accounts had been frozen, and she had been forced out of her home by her in-laws.The pregnant 37-year-old was left with no resources to fight back, and returned to her parents' home. "It was traumatising, and I went into depression for five years," says Kimathi. Continue reading...