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 562 | WORD Downloads 173 PDF Downloads 263

Research Articles and Essays

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

Francisca Adom-Opare
Abstract 1088 | WORD Downloads 386 PDF Downloads 327

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

Oche Onazi
Abstract 341 | WORD Downloads 169 PDF Downloads 199

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 311 | WORD Downloads 201 PDF Downloads 135

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 854 | WORD Downloads 286 PDF Downloads 383

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 228 | WORD Downloads 186 PDF Downloads 136

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 1581 | WORD Downloads 462 PDF Downloads 470

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 971 | WORD Downloads 221 PDF Downloads 349

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 353 | WORD Downloads 126 PDF Downloads 99

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 188 | WORD Downloads 171 PDF Downloads 70

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 179 | WORD Downloads 181 PDF Downloads 86

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 924 | WORD Downloads 354 PDF Downloads 246

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 418 | WORD Downloads 212 PDF Downloads 119

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 288 | WORD Downloads 151 PDF Downloads 152

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

Leanne Manson, Tim McCreanor, Heather Came
Abstract 1654 | WORD Downloads 332 PDF Downloads 584

“Listen to the Parents, Just Listen to Them”

Kelly Vaughan
Abstract 473 | WORD Downloads 222 PDF Downloads 184

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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