Kenya: After the death of her husband, a widow has to have sex with a stranger for three days as part of a ritual. This strange ritual is performed by women from the Luo tribe in western Kenya. Women who become widows after the death of their husbands are required by law to have sexual intercourse with a stranger for three consecutive days in order to have a normal life in society. It is believed that in order to ensure effectiveness, this practice must be done without any safety precautions.
Many of these men are sexually promiscuous. Therefore, women who are victims are more likely to get AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases. Similarly, women are responsible for a large number of pregnancies that occur after engaging in such forced labor. A documentary released by the BBC reveals that the forced sexual harassment took place before she could recover from the trauma of a long-term husband’s death.
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But the elders of the tribe say that this ritual involves the practice of witchcraft to free the wife from the unclean presence of his soul which arises in the body of the wife after the death of the husband. The ceremony, called window cleansing, lasts for three days. The ceremony begins with having sex with this stranger, just on the floor of the roof that was temporarily erected in front of the house. Before the first sexual intercourse, a woman kills a chicken and feeds it to a stranger. After dark, the second stage of sex, in which the clothes are left on the floor, is in bed.
In the morning, everything should be set on fire, including the blankets and loose clothing lying on the floor. After that, the stranger who came to the ceremony shaved off all the hair of the widow’s body. The widow can return to her own home only after she has spent three days with him on the roof, and on the fourth day after washing the house with her husband. Until then, even children will not be able to return home. Mothers of the Luo tribe fear that if they do not observe the rites of purification after the death of their husbands, their children will suffer death and epidemics.
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The Luo tribe has a group of professional purifiers known as the Jotters, who have been performing such rituals for decades. There are also magicians who pay up to four hundred dollars to have sex with a widow for three days and purify her. In the Luo tribe, which has been dominated by patriarchs for generations, the older men have the final say. It would be a heinous crime to utter a word against them. But some women in the Luo tribe are raising their voices against this evil.