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A Panos Report

At Maseno University in Vihiga district, about 400 km from Nairobi in the south-west of Kenya, a third-year male student boasts about his exploits in humiliating female students. He specialises in embracing and groping women with or without their consent. Disregarding the opinion of a female student interviewed with him, who has been trying to make the point that someone touching your body without your consent amounts to harassment, he says, "Ah, Mimi ninaleseni ya kudara wanawake na kila dame anajua" ("I am licensed to embrace women and every lady knows that").