Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Boran Women, by David MacDougall and James Blue

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Traditionally confined to the roles of life-givers, nurturers and homemakers, Boran women of Kenya are slowly realizing the importance of education and the difference it can make in their lives. They attach great importance to the traditional role of women in a herding society and perform dawn to dusk tasks with little deviation from customary ways. Remarkable though is the obvious independence they demonstrate in performing tasks which normally would fall under the male domain, like building their own houses

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Boran Women

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Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1974

by David MacDougall and James Blue

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Kenya, Faces of Change

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