Bibliograph

In my dreams I dance, how one woman battled prejudice and setbacks to become a champion, Anne Wafula Strike

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In my dreams I dance, how one woman battled prejudice and setbacks to become a champion, Anne Wafula Strike

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In my dreams I dance

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Anne Wafula Strike

Series statement

My story

Sub title

how one woman battled prejudice and setbacks to become a champion

Summary

They said it couldn't be done. But Anne Wafula achieved many remarkable things in her life. This is her incredible story. Struck down with polio at the age of two and a half, Anne overcame the prejudice rife in her native village in Kenya, where neighbors believed she was cursed and called her a snake because of her disability, which left her paralyzed below the waist. Losing her mother at a tender age, and sent to a school far away from home, she achieved fantastic academic results, amidst the challenges of a military coup. She went to university and qualified as a teacher, and fell in love with a British man who truly valued her defiant spirit. She moved from a world with no running water to make a life for herself in modern Britain. Where, against all odds, she bore a child, and went on to be the first East African to compete in her sport internationally. Anne is currently in further training, and will be representing Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympics, where she has been tipped as one of our top hundred hopefuls. Meet Anne Wafula, a woman whose determination knows no bounds

Target audience

adult

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