widow cleansing

English

Noun

widow cleansing (uncountable)

  1. (Africa) A tradition that requires widowed women to have sexual intercourse as a form of ritual purification
    • 2017 December 6, “Kenya widows fight sexual 'cleansing' practise”, in BBC News‎:
      A group of women in western Kenya is fighting "widow-cleansing", a traditional ritual practiced by Luo ethnic communities in some of the poorer, more rural areas of the country.
    • 2019 May 23, Roseline Orwa, “Kenya: education, stigma and widow cleansing”, in LSE blog‎:
      The practices of widow cleansing, as well as widow inheritance, pose a serious risk of spreading HIV/AIDS to individuals and among the wider community.
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