How I jumped financial hurdles to build a thriving hospitality empire

"It was when I finally joined the Coast Girls High School in Mombasa that I started wearing shoes," she said, adding that shoes formed part of the school uniform requirement.

Upon completion of high school, she enrolled at the Mombasa Polytechnic (now the Technical University of Mombasa) where she studied clerical accounts. In the evenings, she would attend part-time...