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FOR NEW 2024 EDITION SEE 9780008703011 The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike
FOR NEW 2024 EDITION SEE 9780008703011The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike 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 being the first East African to compete in her sport internationally. Anne is currently in further training, hoping to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympics.
- | Author: Anne Wafula Strike
- | Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2010
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780007354283
- | ISBN-10: 0007354282
