Kenya Airways, known as the Pride of Africa, has been the country's national carrier since 1977. Over the decades, its pilots have become symbols of Kenyan technical excellence.
When the first generation of Kenyan female pilots qualified and took the controls of commercial aircraft, it represented a transformation in what Kenyan girls could imagine for themselves. Patricia Njeri and others who followed her broke barriers not just in aviation but in the cultural imagination of what professions were possible for women.
Every girl who saw a female pilot on a Kenya Airways flight saw something she had not seen before.