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Evelyn Gitau: Finding comfort in my singlehood
African Population and Health Research Center Director of Programmes Evelyn Gitau during an interview at her home on February 14, 2024. PHOTO | BONFACE BOGITA | NMG
Evelyn Gitau wanted to be a mechanic. She liked the idea of getting under cars, pulling everything apart, and bringing them together again. "Absolutely not! You are doing no such thing,” her late father, an economist, once told her. “You do sciences or arts.”
That is what she went and did: a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biology, a Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences, and a PhD in Life Science at 31 years of age.
