Nairobi, Feb. 19 -- Caroline Mutuku was the top girl in the country in 2006's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams. For a brief moment, she was everywhere - TV, newspapers, the works. Then she went to medical school because that's what you did if you were smart, ambitious and went to a good school. Three months in, she quit.

"I almost fainted in a ward," she says.

Everyone except her father said she was making a mistake.

For 12 years after that, she was a banker. Equity Bank at 18, straight out of high school. Standard Chartered as a management trainee. McKinsey doing deals across the continent - mergers, acquisitions. Then, in 2021, in Ethiopia, on a project, she had a moment: What if I changed? What would happen?

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