African Girl

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781493574230
  • 29 januari 2014
  • 110 pagina's
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A world musical story is set from Africa to New York. It is a story of music and struggle Mirembe Destiny's life begins when a white lady visits her school deep down in an African village, she dons her a bible, diary and a gift book. (Journey to the centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.) These change her life forever. She starts recording her daily experiences in the diary. All is well until the death of her father who leaves no heir since he had no boy child which culture requires, Destiny’s dreams start fading as her mother is evicted from their house and family property is shared by relatives. However through her singing talent, she earns a place at one of Africa’s most prestigious schools. Taken in a foster home, each time she has to run away from trouble until one time his foster father tries to rape her, when she makes a narrow escape, she runs into the loaming night until she decides to give up on life. She is saved, given a new life and a new world. While she thinks her story is the worst, as a journalism intern, she visits the D.R.Congo where 48 women are raped every hour, she shares experiences with women and girls and she feels so touched, when she returns home, it takes her a month to recover from the shock but desperate to do something to save the situation. She visits refugee camps and children centres and makes a campaign in papers. When she wins the continental World Vocal Superstar search to represent Africa at the grand finale in New York where each continent is represented by one person, she uploads her diary on social media as part of the obligations of the contestants. To her surprise, her story earns world-wide attention, she gets over 50, 000,000 likes on Facebook. She is yet to prove to the world what she can do, her dreams come alive as she meets all her stars, the American president hears about the much publicised show and also decides to attend, each media company in the world is focusing on this grand finale, the show is written down in history as the most viewed event. Can she defy all the odds and she becomes the champion? The competition is too stiff, well as she must be new in this game, the world does not care, find out in this magically written story that has touched a number of people in the world.

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29 januari 2014
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110
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152 mm
Product hoogte
7 mm
Product lengte
229 mm
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152 mm
Verpakking hoogte
7 mm
Verpakking lengte
229 mm
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172 g

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