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Evelyn Acoth Watta
The most powerful speech was made by Evelyn A. Watta, the young Kenyan delegate and one of only four women sports journalists in Kenya. She spoke of the courage and determination it took for her to break through as a sports journalist. Her editor and even her father at one stage advised her against it and she had to over come fierce opposition from her male colleagues, the male-dominated sports press in Kenya and from sports athletes and officials. She told of her most horrendous moment when she was accused of losing the home soccer team a vital match because she had to sit on the touchline and was seen as a distraction to the players!
By Jared