Laurens van Boven 🍉 (@chamwamba.com)

bbcafrica on Instagram: "In her 30s, Ijeoma Uchegbu was living in a homeless shelter with her 3 children. ⁣⁣Born in the UK, she was fostered by a white fami…" In her 30s, Ijeoma Uchegbu was living in a homeless shelter with her 3 children. ⁣⁣Born in the UK, she was fostered by a white family, as her parents went on to university. It was when her Nigerian parents took her back to their home country that she discovered a passion for science and a burning ambition. ⁣⁣“Nigeria was the best thing that ever happened to me… because it completely reset my ambition and my aspiration."⁣⁣She went to university aged 16, married and started a family of her own but when her marriage failed, desperate to do a PhD she moved back to the UK. She had one suitcase and £500 to start a new life. ⁣⁣Today, Ijeoma owns her own company working in nano medicine seeking out ways to carry medicines to parts of the body that are notoriously hard to reach. ⁣⁣She was given a damehood earlier this year and is a champion of race equality. ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/DSr_UrUlo4r/?img_index=7&igsh=aThzeWc5aHJteGhj