This is planet money from NPR.
The place where Carol Nakesa grew up.
She says it's not a place she ever expected the rest of the world to care about.
I was born and raised in a small town in western Kenya called Busia.
It's a one street town.
You know, it's a town that doesn't have a roundabout.
Busia, Kenya.
It's right on Kenya's border with Uganda.
So it's a busy international crossing point.
There's lots of truck traffic hauling things back and forth.
It made getting around busea kind of treacherous.
When Carol was a kid, we would.
Ride at the back of bicycles.
They're called border borders.
And all the time we freaked out whenever there was a truck coming because, you know, they're not very safe.
When Carol graduated from high school in the mid nineties, she went to Nairobi.
She enrolled in a certificate program studying computers, but she missed home one day.
While she's away, her dad finds a way to bring her back to Busia.
He hears about a group of foreigners who have come to town, researchers who are doing work at a local school.
And so he seeks them out, all dad like, but very, very casual.