Essay by Eric Worrall
The traditional taboo against Women fishing alongside men has been broken thanks to global warming.
Kenyan women defy fishing taboos as climate change threatens Lake Victoria
In a lakeside village in Kisumu County, women were forbidden from fishing. Until Rhoda Ongoche Akech defied the social stigma.
By Daniel Kipchumba
Published On 20 Apr 202620 Apr 2026Kagwel, Kenya — Rhoda Ongoche Akech still remembers the whispers that followed her to the water’s edge in 2002. At 39 years old, the mother of seven was about to break one of Lake Victoria’s oldest taboos: a woman stepping into a fishing boat.
“People were alleging that when women go into the waters accompanied by men, they would engage in sexual intercourse,” the now 61-year-old said. But after they realised she was going there just to learn, and would not stop because of the stigma, “they kept quiet”.
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For decades, she had worked as a fishmonger in the village where fishing – only done by men – had sustained families for generations. But her income was dwindling. The cost of buying fish from male fishermen, combined with expenses for firewood, frying oil, and bus fare to markets, was becoming unsustainable.
Then in 2001, some women from neighbouring Homabay County arrived in Kagwel and did something unthinkable: they went fishing. Akech watched them and was inspired.
“I sought the help of two young men by then to assist me with fishing as I learned,” she said. Despite warnings from community members who insisted women had no place on the water, she persisted. Her family depended on it.
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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/20/kenyan-women-defy-fishing-taboos-as-climate-change-threatens-lake-victoria
What can I say – all those warnings of global warming causing social disruption were true all along. Now African women in isolated tribal villages are being treated more like human beings thanks to global warming.
Is there anything that global warming cannot do?
I fail to see the connection to global warming. The story begins prior to 2001. It sounds as though this is an entrepreneurial effort following several market driven issues.
Sexual Equality … In Africa … Does this mean that Virgin African Boys will face being raped to cure Aids in African Men?
I hadn’t heard that Bill Gates was returning to Africa.
Not enough volcanos in Africa to create a demand, so probably.
This has to one of the most bizarrely CONTRIVED “climate-change” stories ever publish..
Hilarious. ! thanks for the laugh. 🙂
Nup! It is probably Sesame Street in the local language that featured lack of sexual specific social roles.
So when are we going to cover the recent study that implies climate change causes water to be wetter?
CC is only causing water to be wetter when it isn’t causing water to be drier.
“Sexual equality” at its most basics: male = female = transgender
Now that’s modern math for ya’.
/sarc
The actual issues, of course have nothing to do with “climate change”. They are a lack of alternative employment leading to overfishing, along with pollution, algae growth, and encroachment on riparian lands leading to even more downward pressure on fish stocks. If the men in those communities are so useless, I don’t know, perhaps teach the women how to drive tractors.
I thought it was the Man’s responsibility to “Plough the Field” … I didn’t think Women were designed with the proper equipment for ploughing. Though a few of them could “Ho the Row”
This is a very confusing post by Eric and you need to read the original article to get to the truth of the matter. There are two issues here: first, Kenyan women are breaking taboos that formerly prevented them from fishing. Second, the decline in catches is because of ‘climate change’.These two issues have been conflated in the post to derive the untrue and sillly headlne Claim: Global Warming is Bringing Sexual Equality to Africa. Readers desrve better than that.
The reduction in yields is almost certainly the result of overfishing and probably pollution of the water. ‘Climate change’ is the usual pathetic excuse for poor resource management.