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Sipping Dom Perignon Through A Straw - Reimagining Success As A Disabled Achiever (Paperback) Loot Price: R370
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Sipping Dom Perignon Through A Straw - Reimagining Success As A Disabled Achiever (Paperback)

Eddie Ndopu

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An inspirational and truly intersectional memoir from global humanitarian and social justice advocate Eddie Ndopu-a queer, Black wheelchair user and one of the UN Secretary-General's 17 Advocates for the SDGs.

A memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful.

Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn't live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop music and haute couture, lip syncing to the latest hits, and was the only wheelchair user at his school, where he flourished academically. By his late teens, he had become a sought-after speaker, travelling the world to give talks on disability justice. When he is later accepted on a full scholarship into Oxford University, he soon learns that it's not just the medical community he must defy - it's the educational one too.

In Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw, we follow Ndopu, sporting his oversized, bejewelled sunglasses, as he scales the mountain of success, only to find exclusion, discrimination, and neglect waiting for him on the other side. As he soars professionally, sipping champagne with world leaders, he continues to feel the loneliness and pressure of being the only one in the room. Determined to carve out his place in the world, he must challenge bias at the highest echelons of power and prestige.

Searing, vulnerable and inspiring, Ndopu's remarkable journey to reach beyond ableism, reminds us never to let anyone else define our limits.

General

Imprint: Two Roads Pub
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2023
First published: 2023
Authors: Eddie Ndopu
Dimensions: 230 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 978-1-399-80379-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with disability
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-399-80379-4
Barcode: 9781399803793

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