Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity

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While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, health, and policy challenges that disability issues have raised throughout the African continent. The volume draws on the achievements of disability studies while acknowledging the demands and challenges of particular African contexts. The authors bring diverse methodological approaches and expertise to bear on these issues, ranging from anthropology and bioethics to special education and community rehabilitation. Essays consider indigenously African definitions of disability as well as exploring disability at the intersection of poverty, geography, and globalized biopolitics. Contributors analyze the difficulties of implementing disability policy across the continent while also being mindful of successful approaches taken at local, national, and international levels. Disability in Africa thus charts new avenues for disability studies research in and about Africa. PART ONE: INTRODUCING THE FIELD Africanizing Disability: Toward an Articulation of African Disability Studies -Toyin Falola and Nic Hamel Disability Studies: A Disciplinary Overview - Toyin Falola, Anna Lee Carothers, and Nic Hamel PART TWO: THEORIZING DISABILITY IN AFRICA An African Ethics of Social Well-Being: Understanding Disability and Public Health - Maria Berghs Rethinking African Disability Studies: From the Cultural-Deficit Model to a Socio-Economic Perspective - Fikru Negash Gebrekidan Disability in Africa: A Cultural/Religious Perspective - Mary Nyangweso Disability and Cultural Meaning Making in Africa Kathryn - Linn Guerts PART THREE: REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS Disfiguration, Trauma, and Disability: Reclaiming the Body and the Case against Prosthetics - Ernest Cole Paradoxical Dramaturgies: Disability, Ritual, and Resistance in the Plays of Wole Soyinka - Nic Hamel Demonizing Madness: Mental Disorders as Deus Ex Machina in Nollywood Movies - Kolawole Olaiya Masculinity, Disability, and Empire in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians - Saloua Ben Zahra PART FOUR: EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, AND CAREGIVING Addressing Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fostering Inclusive Education of Children with Disabilities - Serges Djoyou Kamga Inclusive Education and Cultural Relevance in East Africa - Angi Stone-MacDonald and Ozden H. Pinar-Irmak Youth, Women, and Disability in Africa: Economic Empowerment and Community Strategies to Leave No One Behind - Ntombekhaya Tshabalala, Elizabeth Ladner Babi Agbettor, and Theresa Lorenzo Caregiving and Support in African Context: A Personal Perspective Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah PART FIVE: ACTIVISM AND BARRIERS TO INCLUSION So that the Stew Reaches Everybody: Women's Negotiations of Leadership and Power in Ghana's DPO's - Denise M. Nepveux Disability Policy, Movement Activism, and the Non-Enforcement of a Disability Act: The Case of Ghana - Emmanuel Sackey Students with Disabilities' Lack of Opportunity for Sport and Recreational Activities: The Case of South African Universities - Desire Chiwandire Rehabilitation and the Realization of Disability Rights - Serges Djoyou Kamga Conclusion: A Research Agenda for African Disability Studies Anna Lee Carothers and Toyin Falola Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography Index