This archive report was first published on 10 November 2019.
Stanford University student Norah Borus Chelagat, a 24-year-old Kenyan, was found dead in her room in June this year.
According to an autopsy report released by the Santa Clara Medical Examiner’s Office, Norah died by suicide from poisoning.
Before her death, Norah had expressed her longing for Kenya in a video she recorded, stating that she missed the food, people, and the feeling of being in Kenya.
“Before Stanford, I had never gone out of Kenya. People are nice but I miss Kenya, the food, the people. There is a certain feeling you get while in Kenya’ like people are waiting for you. I want to get some experience here and use it when I go back to Kenya.”
Norah was a top student in Nairobi County, ranking first in the 2013 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam and fourth nationally. She joined Stanford in 2014 to study Computer Science.
She was laid to rest at her father’s farm in Ray Farm, Moiben Constituency on June 29th.
