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 519 | WORD Downloads 170 PDF Downloads 256

Research Articles and Essays

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

Francisca Adom-Opare
Abstract 1024 | WORD Downloads 367 PDF Downloads 319

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

Oche Onazi
Abstract 323 | WORD Downloads 167 PDF Downloads 193

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 292 | WORD Downloads 191 PDF Downloads 132

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 746 | WORD Downloads 277 PDF Downloads 356

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 206 | WORD Downloads 180 PDF Downloads 130

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 1499 | WORD Downloads 438 PDF Downloads 419

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 880 | WORD Downloads 212 PDF Downloads 323

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 310 | WORD Downloads 122 PDF Downloads 97

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 174 | WORD Downloads 165 PDF Downloads 69

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 163 | WORD Downloads 174 PDF Downloads 85

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 868 | WORD Downloads 282 PDF Downloads 233

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 393 | WORD Downloads 206 PDF Downloads 114

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 274 | WORD Downloads 144 PDF Downloads 150

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

Leanne Manson, Tim McCreanor, Heather Came
Abstract 1567 | WORD Downloads 321 PDF Downloads 552

“Listen to the Parents, Just Listen to Them”

Kelly Vaughan
Abstract 456 | WORD Downloads 214 PDF Downloads 171

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

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