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Nyasha Tembedza is a young female entrepreneur based in Harare, Zimbabwe.  Nyasha’s passion for food and people has inspired her to build a business around these passions. With no experience in a formal kitchen but motivated by a vision to become an international restaurant chain her story is a good example of how persistence, networking and continuous improvement can turn a passion into a business. Being the first-born daughter in her family, expectations were high that Nyasha would follow the typical life cycle of going to University, getting a degree and then settling into a good job. However, for Nyasha this was not to be as she has dropped out of University twice, the first time due to going to a foreign university where failed to adjust which led her to suffer from depression. The second time she dropped out was because of the challenges of balancing running a small business and studying, and in typical entrepreneur fashion the pull of entrepreneurship was greater than that