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 3901 | WORD Downloads 967 PDF Downloads 506

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 2116 | WORD Downloads 350 PDF Downloads 271

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 2302 | WORD Downloads 309 PDF Downloads 256

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 4273 | WORD Downloads 1695 PDF Downloads 745

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 3074 | WORD Downloads 342 PDF Downloads 542

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 2719 | WORD Downloads 233 PDF Downloads 198

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 2346 | WORD Downloads 292 PDF Downloads 164

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 971 | WORD Downloads 298 PDF Downloads 170

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 2866 | WORD Downloads 601 PDF Downloads 396

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 2258 | WORD Downloads 344 PDF Downloads 252

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 2856 | WORD Downloads 277 PDF Downloads 264

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 3368 | WORD Downloads 361 PDF Downloads 342

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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