Nairobi, Sept. 17 -- The only famous Catherines she knew growing up were dead Catherines.

And because she wanted to know how it would feel to be famous, for your name to be read by the whole world, Catherine Ndereba would cut the name Catherine out of the newspaper and stick it in her exercise book. She could not imagine her own name appearing in a newspaper while she was still alive.

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