Abstract

Makeda Semret's early life in Ethiopia was by her own admission quite sheltered, and her father's career in the airline industry meant she had opportunities for education not available to many children there. However, military and political turmoil followed by instability led her family to relocate to Nairobi, Kenya. “We thought it would just be for a few years”, Semret tells The Lancet Infectious Diseases. “But it gradually dawned on us that we might never live in Ethiopia again.” She attended a small French school in Nairobi, but as a non-citizen, access to Kenyan Universities was impossible.

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