When Ms Janice Chiang was in a village near Mombasa, Kenya, for her summer internship, she was taken aback by how much her thinking differed from the locals'.
A Kenyan university student in her team was tagged as a spy by the other village boys and, to stay safe, had to move into his mother's home.
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