Binaifer Nowrojee: A lawyer who became first Kenya female to head a global entity

Growing up in Nairobi, as her father navigated the tides of the legal profession and the politics of the day, Binaifer Nowrojee, the first woman from the Global South to head the Open Society Foundations, picked up memories to last a lifetime.

She remembers the bike rides and the games she played with other children in Woodley, near Adams Arcade, Nairobi. She recalls her times with other children at Hospital Hill Primary School, and later at Loreto Convent, Msongari. She also has fond recollections of the many books she and her two siblings used to read at home, for their parents were book lovers.