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Parents’ role in career choices

Tracey Wairimu wanted to become a dancer even as she enrolled for a diploma course in film production at Nairobi Institute of Performing Arts.

She had discussed her interest with her mother who insisted that she needed a ‘real’ career. The two later agreed on Tracey taking a short course in dancing as she waited for a calling letter into a journalism class.

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