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About the author
Thubaelihle Sibanda is a Zimbabwean born, Namibian-based, football coach and sport management consultant working with women’s football development programs and grassroots sport oganisations in Africa and worldwide to deliver multi-dimensional interventions. Thuba, as she is affectionately known, has for 4 years been the programme director of Physically Active Youth (P.A.Y) Namibia, working in marginalised and impoverished communities of Namibia, using the transformative and undeniable power of sport as a drawcard to change lives. Her work is inspired by her own life’s story which influenced her drive to use sport as a tool to build communities that are places of hope, where potential is unearthed and dreamed defined and found. She is no stranger to the domestic circumstances and external environment most of her beneficiaries at P.A.Y find themselves at, and this is what has inspired her to per her first memoir: A girl from Mpopoma