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 477 | WORD Downloads 135 PDF Downloads 225

Research Articles and Essays

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

Francisca Adom-Opare
Abstract 823 | WORD Downloads 305 PDF Downloads 293

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

Oche Onazi
Abstract 277 | WORD Downloads 134 PDF Downloads 167

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 255 | WORD Downloads 151 PDF Downloads 112

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 550 | WORD Downloads 240 PDF Downloads 294

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 178 | WORD Downloads 151 PDF Downloads 112

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 1156 | WORD Downloads 364 PDF Downloads 309

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 689 | WORD Downloads 173 PDF Downloads 262

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 255 | WORD Downloads 98 PDF Downloads 82

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 152 | WORD Downloads 140 PDF Downloads 60

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 140 | WORD Downloads 100 PDF Downloads 71

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 729 | WORD Downloads 205 PDF Downloads 201

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 314 | WORD Downloads 138 PDF Downloads 95

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 238 | WORD Downloads 113 PDF Downloads 134

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

Leanne Manson, Tim McCreanor, Heather Came
Abstract 1299 | WORD Downloads 182 PDF Downloads 461

“Listen to the Parents, Just Listen to Them”

Kelly Vaughan
Abstract 393 | WORD Downloads 156 PDF Downloads 145

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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