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
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Research Articles and Essays

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

Francisca Adom-Opare
Abstract 4926 | WORD Downloads 1104 PDF Downloads 548

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

Oche Onazi
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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 2951 | WORD Downloads 406 PDF Downloads 302

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
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Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 2757 | WORD Downloads 366 PDF Downloads 274

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 5328 | WORD Downloads 3617 PDF Downloads 806

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 4077 | WORD Downloads 385 PDF Downloads 589

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 3642 | WORD Downloads 264 PDF Downloads 210

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 3262 | WORD Downloads 336 PDF Downloads 188

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 1168 | WORD Downloads 326 PDF Downloads 186

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 3436 | WORD Downloads 658 PDF Downloads 442

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 2864 | WORD Downloads 403 PDF Downloads 283

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 3547 | WORD Downloads 334 PDF Downloads 285

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

Leanne Manson, Tim McCreanor, Heather Came
Abstract 5843 | WORD Downloads 686 PDF Downloads 914

“Listen to the Parents, Just Listen to Them”

Kelly Vaughan
Abstract 4273 | WORD Downloads 426 PDF Downloads 389

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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