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 453 | WORD Downloads 127 PDF Downloads 214

Research Articles and Essays

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

Francisca Adom-Opare
Abstract 770 | WORD Downloads 269 PDF Downloads 276

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

Oche Onazi
Abstract 253 | WORD Downloads 127 PDF Downloads 152

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 234 | WORD Downloads 145 PDF Downloads 103

Disabilities in an African Cultural Worldview

Edwin Etieyibo
Abstract 483 | WORD Downloads 229 PDF Downloads 262

Realizing the Right to Health of People Living with Podoconiosis

Kidus Meskele
Abstract 164 | WORD Downloads 141 PDF Downloads 104

Employment of People with Disabilities in the Hotel Sector in Zimbabwe

Oliver Chikuta, Lovemore Chitambara, Phanos Matura
Abstract 1060 | WORD Downloads 340 PDF Downloads 289

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

Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
Abstract 572 | WORD Downloads 156 PDF Downloads 217

Creative Works

FOURTEEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Kobus Moolman
Abstract 243 | WORD Downloads 92 PDF Downloads 75

Seen and Unseen Steps to Success

Jean Cathro
Abstract 141 | WORD Downloads 120 PDF Downloads 54

‘The Matutu Girl’

Karolina Wambui
Abstract 132 | WORD Downloads 93 PDF Downloads 63

Additional Global Research

Counseling Clients with Learning Disabilities

Tamekia Bell, Theodore Remley, Jr. , Tara Hill
Abstract 663 | WORD Downloads 190 PDF Downloads 175

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

James Montgomery, Andrew Sithling, Fairlene Soji, Matthew Reeve, Nathan Grills
Abstract 294 | WORD Downloads 125 PDF Downloads 88

Contextualizing principles: Lebanon and social justice perspectives on disability reform

William Merrifield
Abstract 218 | WORD Downloads 103 PDF Downloads 126

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

Leanne Manson, Tim McCreanor, Heather Came
Abstract 1187 | WORD Downloads 161 PDF Downloads 412

“Listen to the Parents, Just Listen to Them”

Kelly Vaughan
Abstract 359 | WORD Downloads 138 PDF Downloads 125

Notes from the Field

Dissertation & Abstracts v18i1&2

Abstract 193 | WORD Downloads 91 PDF Downloads 66