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 2396 | WORD Downloads 558 PDF Downloads 420

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 1056 | WORD Downloads 260 PDF Downloads 215

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 2264 | WORD Downloads 343 PDF Downloads 588

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 1110 | WORD Downloads 224 PDF Downloads 199

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
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Literary Representations of People with Disabilities in Selected Nigerian Prose-works

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 1568 | WORD Downloads 274 PDF Downloads 462

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 1433 | WORD Downloads 170 PDF Downloads 155

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
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‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 503 | WORD Downloads 239 PDF Downloads 129

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 1762 | WORD Downloads 485 PDF Downloads 331

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 1264 | WORD Downloads 281 PDF Downloads 184

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 1532 | WORD Downloads 196 PDF Downloads 209

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

Leanne Manson, Tim McCreanor, Heather Came
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“Listen to the Parents, Just Listen to Them”

Kelly Vaughan
Abstract 1524 | WORD Downloads 295 PDF Downloads 256

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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