In an island in lake vipingo, there was a village called Soweto where traditional practices were practiced and highly enforced by the village elders. Anybody that did not obey the orders was ruthlessly dealt with.
One day, Nasieku and her two friends were walking down the village road and the chiefs’ bodyguards abducted them took them to a secluded hut in the village. The following morning, her parents, received herds of cattle and goats as payment for dowry. There was nothing they could do because the chief was a ruthless bastard and anybody that opposed his orders was ruthlessly beaten and at times killed.
After a week, Nasieku and her two friends were one morning woken up and carried to an old woman’s hut, tucked in the village forest. Nasieku had heard that girls were taken there to be circumcised and she knew the moment had come.
Nasieku and her friends were directed to sit on the dirty floor where other three older women stood looking at the young girls and with knives clenched on their hands. The girls were forced to take some water that tasted like rotten onions that eventually got them dizzy. The old woman, took one girl and with the help of the other women, held her up very tightly, undressed her and with the sharp knife circumcised her. Unperturbed, they grabbed the second girl and circumcised her. Nasieku tried running away, but the men sitting outside the hut quickly caught her and brough her back to the hut. The old women urged her that she needed to be a woman just like other women in the village and it was the best thing to do.
It was the turn of Nasieku and as fate would have it, she too was circumcised and as she lay on the ground she could see that her two friends had died of excessive bleeding. She was bleeding and was losing blood. The women sensing that they may lose another girl, called the traditional doctor who came and after some long time of treatment, managed to contain the bleeding and Nasieku regained her consciousness.
The village chief held a meeting with the elders and agreed to marry off Nasieku to Kimelu, an old man and a friend to the chief. During the marriage period, Nasieku got pregnant and died while giving birth.