I Wore Gumboots to My Front Door

At 23, Elizabeth Jumah was in India. A photographer flew from London to document her journey as she recorded the impact of a program reaching 2.5 million farmers. She was the Unilever Foundation Ambassador for Africa. The future looked exactly like she had planned.

One year later, she had no job. And she was skipping meals.

What followed were years in the long middle – that place between who you were and who you are becoming. She started over ten times. She carried her life in a paper bag. She stood in a water queue praying no one would take her phone. She kept going.

This book is not about the fall. Everyone talks about the fall. This is about what comes after – the season nobody talks about, the years nobody sees, the part where you have to decide who you are going to be when nothing is going the way you planned.

If you have ever felt like you were too far behind to catch up- this book is for you.

Elizabeth Jumah writes from the ground. From Bukembe to Nairobi. From gumboots at her front door to everything she built after. Raw, honest, and deeply human.