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I taught my deaf children to speak

Felicia Foinmbam and her three children: Photo; Courtesy

With three deaf children Felicia Foinmbam faced harsh criticism , close relatives thought she had been bewitched while some Christians said she was under an ancestral curse, she tells us how she left her country for Kenya in search of a solution. 

When Felicia Foinmbam, a management assistant in a Pharmaceutical company, gave birth to her first child, everything appeared normal until the baby turned four.

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