Most students with disabilities do not get good quality education in Africa. The author explains his personal experience in the African education system in Ghana. The author required spectacles in order to read and write, unfortunately, didn't have effective ones, and so by 14 was unable to read most printed groups. He mentions how he felt behind and lacked much assistance with his poor vision, and it was not until he went to a residential school for blind people where they taught students to type and use braille. Here he was introduced to cassettes and met other blind students, able to learn valuable skills and knowledge allowing him to go to college. However, this experience was exceptional. A recent Sightsavers paper to UNESCO 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report shows that the vast majority of children with visual impairments in sub-Saharan Africa do not receive a good quality education. A census of 13 African countries indicates only 58.6% of boys and 60.1% of girls with visual impairments aged 12 are literate. Further, large numbers of these children don't go to school at all, 30% of all students with visual impairments aged 12 have never been enrolled.