Abosede Felicia Iyiola’s interest in nature was piqued as a young girl when she lived with her grandparents for five years. She later enrolled in university to study for a degree in Agronomy, encouraged to continue with her education by an uncle—a PhD holder and chartered accountant. “He made me believe that I could break the pattern in our family where most of the women did not pursue education, and he offered to pay my tuition fees,” she says.