World renowned black professional polo player, Uneku Atawodi, will this week share the story of her spectacular foray into the male dominated world of equestrian sports on African Voices, a magazine programme of the Cable News Network sponsored by telecommunications giant, Globacom.

A vignette of the edition indicated that the polo queen who is popularly addressed as Neku holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Equestrian Science, a Masters degree in International Business and a British Horse Society stage 4 riding accreditation. She will be taking viewers through her journey into professional polo which began when she fell in love with horses at age 13 and how she stuck to her determination to excel in her chosen sport, in spite of subtle disapproval from family members,.

With a legendary passion for polo which developed from her fascination with “the smell of dirty leather,” Neku has carved a niche for herself as a legend who has not only played professional polo in over fourteen countries, but continues to represent Nigeria at the Federation of International Polo.

Globacom said 28 year-old Neku would be joined on the programme by two other sports icons, namely Bianca Buitendag of Victoria Bay, South Africa, and Shehzana Anwar of Nairobi, Kenya, who are equally setting confounding records in sports. The three sports icons will feature on the CNN magazine programme which will be on air at 10.30 a.m. on Friday with repeat editions at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, 12.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. on Sunday; and on Mondays at 11:30 p.m. and on Tuesday at 5.30 a.m.
Buitendag, a South African professional surfer, was born in Western Cape, South Africa, in 1993, and was raised close to the beach of False Bay outside of Cape Town where she learned to surf at the age of 8 with her two brothers. She was meritoriously admitted into the ASP world tour in 2013, and completed the year with the highly coveted ‘Rookie of The Year’ Award at the ASP awards ceremony. She attributes her success in the game of surfing to her father.
“My father was the one who pushed me into my first wave, and he has been supporting me ever since that day. He introduced me to what I know and call ‘my first love’, the ocean, and to a sport that I will do for as long as I can walk”, she enthused.
The third guest on the show, Kenyan female archer, Anwar, was born in 1989.She went into archery in 2002 and made her international debut in 2008. She is the reigning African Archery Champion, since winning in Windhoek early in 2016, andwas the Kenyan flag-bearer in archery at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. A human resource assistant, she is better known by the sobriquet, Kuki.