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Vanessa Mdee speaks on battling partial blindness

Vanessa Mdee [Courtesy]

Tanzanian songstress Vanessa Hau Mdee has revealed that a while ago she got a problem that left her partially blind. The Atlanta-based singer in an Instagram video revealed that even though she is blind in one eye, she is grateful to God for the eye that functions properly.

Nilipata tatizo ambalo lilinipofusha Jicho moja, so kwa muda nimekuwa nikitumia jicho moja na hili linguine halioni. So ni ulemavu lakini, is not something naweza sema ni ulemavu kwa Sababu Mungu amenijalia na jicho ambalo linaona, so its fine. (I had a problem that blinded one eye, so for a while, I was using one eye and the other one was partially blind. I would not call it a disability because God has provided me with one that sees, so its fine)” she opened up

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