I’m Able: A Woman’s Advice for Disability Change Agents. This book is about the true life of Sefakor G.M.A. Komabu-Pomeyie Ph.D.– from under her mother’s desk as a child in Ghana to the hills of Vermont as a PhD holder.

As a bubbly child in her eighth year, who had all her future ahead and the love of her mom and dad, She never dreamt of waking up one day and losing her legs to polio, but that was what happened.

From that tragic point, her beautiful life began falling apart; Her Dad ran out and left the family, never to return. The society treated her as an outcast. Outsiders looked at her disabled condition and called her a cursed child.

It took the resilience of her mom, and her “never give up” attitude, to see her through life. Her Mum was the only one who had a vision of who she could be and identified the springboard on which she could stand and reach the skies.

It was her mom who told her, “It’s only through education that you can become someone of worth,” and from that day, they did all they could to ensure she got that education she needed.

Getting an education as a person with a disability was not as smooth as she ever thought it could be. It was not so long until she realized that the school facilities and resources were built without people with disability in mind.

She therefore had to compete with people who had advantages she did not have, and that eventually led her onto the fields of policy analysis and advocacy from which she has never looked back.

As a victim and a survivor of a system that was built to bring her and any child with a disability down, She already had first-hand experience and now stands in a better place to paint a picture of the troubles people with disabilities go through to rise to the top.

So, she wrote this book: I’m Able: A Woman’s Advice for Disability Change Agents, which is the true story of her life, as a form of narrative discourse to begin the discussion of disability in universities, colleges, and even in our secondary schools.

This book is a one-stop shop for educators, therapists, counselors, parents, and students.

She aims to bring to the fore all the challenges students with disabilities move through, and how practically we can align policy with practices in our education system.

“I am not writing a book that seeks to throw a pity party for people with disabilities but rather seeks to address the fact that disability is a limitation we place on ourselves and others.” said Sefakor G.M.A. Komabu-Pomeyie Ph.D.

With the right kind of environment and support from the powers that be, people with all kinds of disabilities will soar to greater heights and achieve whatever dreams they set their hearts on.

I don’t think there’s anyone who wouldn’t benefit from reading this book.

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Sefakor G.M.A. Komabu-Pomeyie Ph. D. is an international disability rights advocate, educator, researcher, and policy analyst for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability and as the Resource Center Coordinator of the Ghana Education Service. She is the Founder of Enlightening and Empowering People with Disabilities in Africa. She has presented on several platforms including the American Educational Research Association, New England Educational Organization, African Studies Association, and European Conference on African Studies-Switzerland. She teaches at the University of Vermont and Saint Michael’s College.