Behind closed doors: The Kenyan marriages built on fear From threats with pangas to financial control, survivors describe the devastating realities of domestic violence. Gender Just now

Four in 10 women (41 per cent) who had ever had a husband or intimate partner said they had experienced at least one form of economic, psychological or emotional, physical, or sexual violence from their current or most recent partner, compared with 36 per cent of men.

Nearly half of those surveye (48 per cent) said they had experienced violence from a current or former husband or intimate partner in the previous year, according to 2022 data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

Painful pattern of controlling behaviour Angel is trapped in a painful pattern of controlling behaviour — a form of intimate partner violence that the KDHS 2022 found to be widespread in Kenya, though its prevalence differs between women and men.