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Kenya's Steffany Wangari among top three winners of global writers competition

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Steffany Wangari Ndei. [Courtesy]

A Kenyan journalist Steffany Wangari Ndei is among 17 women who have won the global Emerging Women Writers Competition.

This is after the 29-year-old wrote a personal story of her relationship with football, from a child who fell in love with the game watching the 2002 World Cup, to a promising player on a college scholarship in the US, to becoming disaffected with the game until she returned to Kenya to coach a boys' team.

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