Umoja:  Where Women Run Wild 

Director Elizabeth Tadic / 2010 / 33mins 

Umoja:  Where Women Run Wild tells the amusing and life-changing story of a group of tribal Samburu women in Northern Kenya who reclaim their lives, turning age-old patriarchy on its head.

Some years ago around 600 Samburu women claimed British soldiers raped them. When they returned home, their husbands beat them and cast them out, asserting they had brought shame to their families.

In 1995, several women banded together to establish the village of Umoja [unity], on an unoccupied field in the dry grasslands where no men were to be allowed.

Rebecca Lolosoli, a charismatic and outspoken crusader for women's rights, becomes the matriarch.

These women have rewritten traditional tribal laws, and with a taste for freedom, there's simply no turning back.