Summary

Chapter 7 opens with a description of how Nyamayaro has been spending her days. Besides saving all the money she can for university, she now also interns at the United Nations Association (UNA-UK), a charity dedicated to supporting the work of the United Nations. When she is in her windowless office reading the Guardian, she sees an advertisement for a HIV/AIDS researcher to join a new team in London. Nyamayaro decides that she must get this job--it is what she has been dreaming of for many years. Unfortunately, she does not have the qualifications for the position, but the advertisement does say that the project is to be led by Africans for Africans, so Nyamayaro calls the lead researcher every week to make her case. She succeeds in getting what she refers to as a pity interview. Dr. Julia Cleeves, a senior policy...