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 4437 | WORD Downloads 363 PDF Downloads 458

Research Articles and Essays

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

Francisca Adom-Opare
Abstract 6340 | WORD Downloads 1229 PDF Downloads 607

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

Oche Onazi
Abstract 3916 | WORD Downloads 412 PDF Downloads 371

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 4378 | WORD Downloads 518 PDF Downloads 334

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 6742 | WORD Downloads 566 PDF Downloads 1129

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 3681 | WORD Downloads 423 PDF Downloads 306

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 7281 | WORD Downloads 4428 PDF Downloads 870

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 5525 | WORD Downloads 440 PDF Downloads 655

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 4873 | WORD Downloads 300 PDF Downloads 228

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 4587 | WORD Downloads 391 PDF Downloads 215

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 1544 | WORD Downloads 380 PDF Downloads 217

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 4598 | WORD Downloads 757 PDF Downloads 491

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 3953 | WORD Downloads 466 PDF Downloads 321

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 4841 | WORD Downloads 375 PDF Downloads 310

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

Leanne Manson, Tim McCreanor, Heather Came
Abstract 7430 | WORD Downloads 879 PDF Downloads 974

“Listen to the Parents, Just Listen to Them”

Kelly Vaughan
Abstract 5639 | WORD Downloads 504 PDF Downloads 470

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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