Editorial: Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sub-Saharan Africa, disability, human rights, decolonial
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This essay provides an overview of the Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa, and briefly outlines its intentions and the thematic content of the issue.
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Elvis Imafidon, SOAS University of London
Dr. Elvis Imafidon is Lecturer in the Department of Religions and Philosophies, School of History, Religions and Philosophies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, and Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the editor of Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics, Lexington Books 2013 (co-editor, John A.I Bewaji), The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity, Palgrave Macmillan 2015, the author of The Rationality of African Traditional Thought: An Introduction, CreateSpace 2013 and the author of African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race (Routledge 2019). He is also the editor of the Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference (Springer 2020). He is the author of many articles including a recent article entitled “Dealing with the Other between the Moral and the Ethical: Albinism on the African Continent” in Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (March 2017). His areas of interest and specialisation include African Philosophy (specifically African ethics and ontology), African alterity studies, African philosophy of disability, comparative world philosophies, continental philosophies and modern Western philosophy.
Charlotte Baker, Lancaster University
Charlotte Baker, Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies, Lancaster University, is interested in contemporary French literature, and postcolonial African literature written in French and English. Charlotte's research interests focus on the representation of marginalised and stigmatised groups in sub-Saharan Africa, theories and representations of disability, as well as comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the body and identity. She is particularly interested in the realities and representations of albinism in African contexts and has published widely in this area.