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Last Friday, 600 girls sat rapt at a premiere screening of the movie “Hidden Figures”. Organised by Women in Real Estate (WIRE), dressed in a rainbow of different coloured uniforms, the girls came from 17 public and private schools from Nairobi and neighbouring counties.
The movie is based on the life story of three African American women mathematicians Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson in the early sixties as the US raced against Russia to put a “man” in space. Known literally as the “black human computers” in an age before computers as we know them today, the three women simultaneously crossed three red-lines of gender, race and profession to become NASA legends at a time of legalised racism. Their story has tremendous relevance for Kenya today.
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