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In My Dreams I Dance

A Story of Prejudice, Perseverance and Pushing for Change
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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 neighbours believed she was cursed and called her a snake because of her disability, which left her paralysed 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.

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Anne Wafula Strike was born in a small village in western Kenya. Aged two and a half she contracted polio, leaving her paralysed. After taking up wheelchair racing, she represented Kenya in the 2004 Paralympics, before joining Paralympics GB in 2006. She is Non-Executive Director of the British Paralympic Association, Active Essex and Princess Alexander Hospital Trust. She’s an avid, effective disability rights campaigner globally. Appointed an MBE in 2014 for services to disability sport and charity, she lives in the UK with her family.
Release date Australia
August 15th, 2024
Pages
320
Edition
New edition
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
129x198x20
ISBN-13
9780008703011
Product ID
38513976

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