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By Joel Gunter
image captionAdama has returned to live in her village. Life has been so hard, she said.
Last month, BBC Africa Eye exposed a thriving black-market trade in babies in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Police arrested seven people on trafficking charges in response to the story, but what about the women on the other side of these illegal deals? What drives a mother to sell her child?
Adama s life was easy when she had her parents, she said. Money was tight, and her options were already narrow, but there was an order to things that made sense. She attended school and cherished it. She had few worries. Then her father died when she was 12, and her mother died a few years later.
Adama arrived in Nairobi and began by selling watermelon on the street, but it didn’t pay enough and her housemate stole any money she left at home. Life in the city was hard, too. She has a scar at the top of her forehead, just under her cropped hair, from defending herself. “Some men were playing with me and it reached a point I had to fight back,” she said.
She moved on to work on a construction site, where she wasn’t paid at all, and from there to a nightclub, where she instructed her boss to send her pay directly back to her grandma in the village. After a while, Adama took a little more of her pay in Nairobi so she could rent a place to live. She found a new job with slightly better wages at another construction site, and met a man there. The two dated for a while and he told her he wanted to have a child.
Adama’s life was easy when she had her parents, she said. Money was tight, and her options were already narrow, but there was an order to things that made sense. She attended school and cherished it. She had few worries. But then her father died when she was 12, and her mother a few years later. As the eldest of three, Adama had a duty to provide for her two siblings.
“Life became so hard then,” she said, in a conversation from her village in a rural part of western Kenya. “I had to drop out of school and fend for myself.”
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