In My Dreams I Dance

By Anna Wafula Strike and Anne Wafula-Strike

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The 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007354282
• ISBN13: 9780007354283
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harpertrue
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"