News Summary

• Known as the Kanyeleng, the women have transformed their experience of infertility and child loss through a tradition of music.
• At 84, Mentending Trawally is slight and stooped, her face lined by time.
• Age has slowed her body, but it has not dimmed the songs that have stayed with her for more than seven decades.
• She remembers the women who came before her and the younger voices now carrying the songs forward.
• The tradition is a cultural rather than religious practice and is not confined to one ethnic group.