Forty-two-year-old Kezziah Muchiri sat her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in 2000, but due to a combination of poverty, disease, lack of adequate government support and other vagaries of life, she only graduated from university last week.

When she started her degree her firstborn child was in Class Two.

“My firstborn is now in Form Four. She was telling me “Mum, will I complete high school before you get your degree? She motivated me.”