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Polio attack never stopped her ambition

Singer Flora Cheptum. She sells her music in the busy streets of Eldoret town. [Photo: Peter Ochieng]

Though she is a person with disability, having suffered from polio at a tender age, Flora Cheptum is a living testimony of a successful physically challenged music star in the Rift Valley.

Her story is that of resilience and determination, after she lost her legs – what she admits has been hard to live with during her childhood. She thought this was the end of her world.

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