Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa Guest Editors Elvis Imafidon, Charlotte Baker

Special issue exploring issues of Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

This special issue of the Review of Disability Studies consists of original articles and creative works that take seriously and explore some important aspects of sub-Saharan African perspectives on disability and their impact on understandings of disability and the lived experiences of persons with disabilities in African societies. This special issue focuses on communities in countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe and general understandings of disability.

This double issue also contains additional international disability studies research.

Plain language abstracts for all essays and creative work may be accessed at:
https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/Africa-plain-language-abstracts

Published: 2022-10-25

Editorial

Editorial: Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Elvis Imafidon, Charlotte Baker
Abstract 3688 | WORD Downloads 345 PDF Downloads 439

Research Articles and Essays

Cultural Etiologies of Disability in Ghana: A Case of Food Taboos in Pregnancy

Francisca Adom-Opare
Abstract 5727 | WORD Downloads 1182 PDF Downloads 574

What Obligations Should Be Owed to [African] People with Disabilities?

Oche Onazi
Abstract 3461 | WORD Downloads 388 PDF Downloads 362

Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences and Coping Strategies of Individuals with Disabilities at Some Selected Healthcare Facilities in the Bosomtwe District of Ghana

Enoch Acheampong, Anthony Kwaku Edusei, Peter Agyei-Baffuor, Reindolf Anokye, Godfred Atta-Osei
Abstract 3792 | WORD Downloads 480 PDF Downloads 318

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 5906 | WORD Downloads 524 PDF Downloads 993

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 3275 | WORD Downloads 394 PDF Downloads 292

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 6452 | WORD Downloads 4036 PDF Downloads 844

Literary Representations of People with Disabilities in Selected Nigerian Prose-works

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 4858 | WORD Downloads 421 PDF Downloads 615

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 4245 | WORD Downloads 284 PDF Downloads 218

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 4044 | WORD Downloads 367 PDF Downloads 200

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 1353 | WORD Downloads 359 PDF Downloads 197

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 3923 | WORD Downloads 706 PDF Downloads 471

Disabled People’s Organisations Grow Social Connectedness for Persons with Disabilities

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 3318 | WORD Downloads 431 PDF Downloads 303

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 4255 | WORD Downloads 357 PDF Downloads 298

Critical te Tiriti analysis of the New Zealand Disability Strategy 2016-2026

Leanne Manson, Tim McCreanor, Heather Came
Abstract 6768 | WORD Downloads 791 PDF Downloads 935

“Listen to the Parents, Just Listen to Them”

Kelly Vaughan
Abstract 4953 | WORD Downloads 466 PDF Downloads 421

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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