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Imagine waking up deaf…

Victor Wambua in an interview. [David Njaaga Standard]

Victor Wambua, 24, had no funds to correct his hearing and has had to adjust to a world of silence. By AGNES AINEAH

One morning in July 2017, I woke up in my room at Daystar University hostels, tuned the radio to my favourite station but no sound came on. It was eerily silent. Then I realised that it was me.  I couldn’t hear a thing.  

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