Word: kenya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make out the shape of the crime, as we see it unfolding like some putrid flower, one word sputters to our lips: "Monster." The word applies whether the alleged criminal is a killer-cannibal in Wisconsin who has confessed to murdering and dismembering 17 victims or 39 schoolboys in Kenya arrested for the rape of 71 of their female classmates and the murder of 19 others...
Sometimes it takes a tragedy to startle people from the complacency of old -- and destructive -- attitudes. On July 13, Kenyans received such a shock, when 271 teenage girls were attacked during a rampage by dozens of their male classmates at St. Kizito, a boarding school in central Kenya. Chased into a corner of the dormitory where they were trying to hide, 19 girls died of suffocation in the crush. Doctors say another 71 were raped. Last week 29 boys ages 14 to 18 were charged with manslaughter; two were also charged with rape...
...assaults were rendered all the more chilling because of the dismissive note struck by some officials. The Kenya Times quoted Joyce Kithira, the school's deputy principal, as saying, "The boys never meant any harm against - the girls. They just wanted to rape." The episode is forcing Kenyans to reexamine attitudes that have long permitted rape to be a part of many girls' school years...
...whole political climate in Africa has been affected by the issues of democratization and the changeover from state-dominated economies to mixed- market economies. You have profound problems in places like Zaire and Kenya, but the continent is on the move in the direction of where the West has been...
Maathai, the first woman in Kenya to earn a Ph.D. (in anatomy) and to become a professor at the University of Nairobi, has at times crossed swords with the Kenyan government for questioning aspects of modernization. In 1989 she was thrown out of her state-owned offices when she opposed construction of a 62- story skyscraper -- the tallest on the continent -- in a public park in Nairobi. Maathai simply moved her headquarters into her home, and triumphed as investors withdrew their support from the project. Maathai is philosophical about such battles: "You cannot fight for the environment without eventually getting...