Cashmeer reveals how she escaped being married off as a child
By Valerian Khakayi, August 12, 2025Digital content creator and software engineer Cashmeer Sayyid has opened up about a traumatic experience she endured during her upbringing.
Speaking during a candid interview with a local media station on Monday, August 11, 2025, Cashmeer disclosed that at a tender age, her parents tried to marry her off twice.
Additionally, while explaining the inspiration behind her faux wedding, Cashmeer said that although she was a bright student, she was almost married off once in primary school and again in high school.
“It was a symbolic wedding to me, that is why I said there is a wedding. I was trying to tell a story. I am a creator, and I have to be creative because I am telling a story; that’s why Tulisema, there is a wedding,” she narrated.
“I was trying to tell a story. I was to be married off when I was in primary school and high school, and I felt like every time I was in school and I was very bright nilikuwa natolewa najaribu kuuzwa mahali, to be married off by my parents.”
How she escaped
The content creator, in addition, went on to say that the first time she was almost married off, she was just thirteen years old, adding that the intended groom was a foreigner who withdrew once he realised how young she was.
Furthermore, she added that her second arranged marriage was with someone in Ethiopia, and a wedding was planned, but she recounted that the man stole her parent’s possessions and disappeared, so it never took place.
“The first time walikuwa wanataka kunioza I was thirteen years old, the guy juu alikuwa mzungu kuona ni mtoto mdogo akajitoa. Ya pili it was when I was in form one second term nilikuwa nafaa kuonzwa kwa muethiopia. Then they planned the wedding, but the guy aliiba vitu zao akapotea that how it did not happen,” she added.
“Then afterwards watu walikuja kuambia that guy ako na bibi already and he is very violent na anadrink a lot if you send your daughter there, atateswa vibaya.”
Child marriage
She added that she used her symbolic event to advocate for the fight against child marriage.
“So I felt like this is my time to be married to who I want and love and the education that they always took from me, which is something that really means a lot to me.
Inviting all those creators and celebrities, they are powerhouses,”she added.
“I knew the moment I took about underage marriage, ‘wakitoka hapo waende waiongelele tutacover tutapush hiyo agenda ya child marriage.”