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 572 | WORD Downloads 178 PDF Downloads 269

Research Articles and Essays

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

Francisca Adom-Opare
Abstract 1123 | WORD Downloads 397 PDF Downloads 333

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

Oche Onazi
Abstract 352 | WORD Downloads 175 PDF Downloads 202

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 342 | WORD Downloads 218 PDF Downloads 138

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 932 | WORD Downloads 296 PDF Downloads 407

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 260 | WORD Downloads 193 PDF Downloads 141

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 1671 | WORD Downloads 471 PDF Downloads 492

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 1062 | WORD Downloads 227 PDF Downloads 375

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 441 | WORD Downloads 133 PDF Downloads 104

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 203 | WORD Downloads 180 PDF Downloads 72

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 200 | WORD Downloads 190 PDF Downloads 91

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 980 | WORD Downloads 384 PDF Downloads 253

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 441 | WORD Downloads 229 PDF Downloads 122

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 306 | WORD Downloads 156 PDF Downloads 156

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 491 | WORD Downloads 234 PDF Downloads 190

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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