Join the Libraries on Friday, August 23, 2024 at 3 p.m. in the Howe Library Atrium (near the media desk and bridge to CCRH) for an author talk and book signing on I'm Able: A Woman's Advice for Disability Change Agents by UVM Lecturer Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie. Light refreshments will be offered and the author will be available for a signing immediately following the event. Copies of the memoir will be available for purchase at the event.
"This book is about my life - from under my mother's desk as a child in Ghana to the hills of Vermont as a PhD holder now," said Kombau-Pomeyie. "As a bubbly child in my eighth year, who had all her future ahead and the love of her mom and dad, I never dreamt of waking up one day and losing my legs to polio, but that was what happened. From that point, my beautiful life began falling apart; Dad ran out and left us, never to return. My society treated me as an outcast. Outsiders looked at my condition and called me a cursed child."
She added, "As a victim and a survivor of a system that was built to bring me and any child with disability down, I have had first-hand experience and now stand in a better place to paint a picture of the troubles people with disabilities go through to rise to the top. So, I am using this book, which is the story of my life, as a form of narrative discourse to begin the discussion of disability in our universities, colleges and even in our secondary schools. This book is a one stop shop for educators, therapists, counselors, parents, and students."