Lithe and light, standing at 5ft 2 inches, a young woman takes her bow and aims. In a split second, the arrow hits the bull’s eye. Meet Shehzana Anwar, Kenya’s ace female archer who carried the country’s flag at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Kuki, as she is popularly known, is from a traditional Punjabi Muslim family in Nairobi and schooled at Oshwal Academy. “I was not an academic and happily skipped class for hockey or football with the boys,” says the young woman who at 31 can easily pass for 18, in her hijab. Her mother Tabassum is her coach and manager.
