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
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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 4840 | WORD Downloads 556 PDF Downloads 357

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 7558 | WORD Downloads 596 PDF Downloads 1194

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 3980 | WORD Downloads 453 PDF Downloads 318

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 7807 | WORD Downloads 5049 PDF Downloads 902

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 6049 | WORD Downloads 468 PDF Downloads 685

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 5259 | WORD Downloads 323 PDF Downloads 235

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
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‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 1676 | WORD Downloads 401 PDF Downloads 230

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 4935 | WORD Downloads 794 PDF Downloads 517

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 4242 | WORD Downloads 497 PDF Downloads 349

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 5235 | WORD Downloads 403 PDF Downloads 324

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 6015 | WORD Downloads 530 PDF Downloads 493

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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