Emmanuel's Gift (2005)

Directors

Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern Winters

Cast

Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

The story

Narrated by Oprah Winfrey, the documentary follows Yeboah's work to change the political and societal norms around disability in his home country of Ghana. Yeboah was born with a deformed right leg and witnessed firsthand the poor treatment of disabled people in Ghana. His father abandoned his family after learning of Yeboah's disability, and Emmanuel grew up in a small home with his mother.

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