Nairobi, June 4 -- Wakiuru Njuguna comes down to the terrace restaurant of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. She is smaller than you remember her. Lighter, literally, and, as you will learn shortly, figuratively. She is having a staycation with her best friend, which is an urban ritual where well-heeled people (women, if we are being honest) leave their nice homes to stay in ritzy hotels with views and do nothing but have prosecco during the day, talk into the night and get pampered through the weekend.

It's not the weekend.

But rules be damned, for Wakiuru, who has taken some time off.

"I've always been someone who sticks to the plan. I'm steady," she says. "But I also realise now that I tied myself too tightly to the script I had for my life....