Eddah Gachukia

Angela Ngendo talks to Dr Eddah Gachukia who is 77 and one of Kenya’s leading campaigners for girls’ education. She has spent much of her life encouraging families to send their daughters to school. She helped set up the Forum for African Women Educationalists which brought together female politicians from around Africa.

Image: A girl in the corridor of a classroom, Credit: AFP/Getty Images