A long scar on Jackline Mwende’s face travels from her temple, kisses her left eyebrow, narrowly misses her eye and traverses her cheek to her lips. Its partner traces an even deeper arc in the center of her forehead. There are other scars in her scalp. And then there are her arms. She has no hands left. Her wrists, swathed in thick bandages, end in stumps. Mwende, of Machakos, 35 miles southeast of the capital, Nairobi, is the face of domestic violence in Kenya. Her husband has been charged over an alleged marital assault that shocked the nation. According to Mwende, her husband, Stephen Ngila, 35, attacked her with a machete, slashing her face and hacking off her hands, enraged because she ...
No comments:
Post a Comment