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Corridors of Dreams and Hope is an inspiring self-authored autobiography by an African girl, Dr. Bukirwa Irene Kamara, who has endured through the hardships of life with love, faith, and courage as spiritual guides. This is a powerful motivational story that centres education as a pivotal point to the success and freedom the author has achieved. This story is about an African girl, woman, and mother who travelled and is still travelling the paths of the African female in life. Writing of the book was inspired by her very strong desire and enthusiasm to motivate, empower, and guide the African child who, struggling through poverty, has lost courage and faith. These are children who don’t have the means to reach for their dreams. The story encourages them to rise above the feeling of helplessness, to empower them with the knowledge that it can be done with strong optimism, faith, and hard work. Even though the story is about an African girl child, the message addresses all people, from all walks of life, especially those from poor backgrounds. The book also contains pictures of stages of the author’s life journey. Bukirwa Irene Kamara is born into a family of seventeen siblings, into extreme poverty, on a farm in rural Uganda. The choices she makes, specifically getting an education against all odds, are fundamental to breaking the poverty cycle and strict cultural barriers. Her dream is nurtured by her unschooled parents, with peasant farmer’s earnings. She becomes the first, and a female, in her family and community to graduate and get a job. She marries, and they move to Southern Africa in pursuit of a better life. She encounters tormenting work permit and marriage struggles. With four children and poverty looming, she returns to university at age 35 and completes her master's and doctoral degrees. Her twenty-year marriage ends, and her husband returns home. She stays behind, and under unsympathetic circumstances, she single-handedly nurtures her four children to great success. Bukirwa Irene Kamara is an educator, scientist, researcher, writer, and speaker. She holds a PhD in Chemistry, has lectured and graduated Masters and doctoral students in Chemistry, and published her work in international scientific journals. She has also worked as a Fuel Scientist at an Oil Company in South Africa. Irene is a co-founder of Schools in a rural South African community. Her next project is to build a vocational school that will graduate youth with entrepreneurial skills.