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Guest Blog: A Timely Tribute to the Power of Women’s Land Rights

This blog originally appeared on Place. By Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro Twenty years ago, I learned a valuable lesson about the power of land and inheritance rights to affirm the status and contributions of women. My father-in-law, then 80 years old, was dividing his land to his children. In doing so, he made a decision that was unusual for a man in Kenya– he gave a piece of land to me, [...]