Essay by Eric Worrall
The traditional taboo against Women fishing alongside men has been broken thanks to global warming.
(more…)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.
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