USA Africa Dialogue Series - New Book: Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity

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Contents

PART A: INTRODUCTION

1. Africanizing Disability: Toward an Articulation of African Disability Studies

                Toyin Falola and Nic Hamel

2. Disability Studies: A Disciplinary Overview

                Toyin Falola, Anna Lee Carothers, and Nic Hamel

 

PART B: THEORIZING DISABILITY IN AFRICA

3. An African Ethics of Social Wellbeing: Understanding Disability and Public Health

Maria Berghs

4. Rethinking African Disability Studies: From the Cultural-Deficit Model to a Socio-Economic Perspective

Fikru Negash Gebrekidan

5. Disability in Africa: A Cultural/Religious Perspective

Mary Nyangweso

6. Disability and Cultural Meaning-Making in Africa

Kathryn Linn Guerts

 

PART C: REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS

7. Disfiguration, Trauma, and Disability: Reclaiming the Body and the Case Against Prosthetics

Ernest Cole

8. Paradoxical Dramaturgies: Disability, Ritual, and Resistance in the Plays of Wole Soyinka

Nic Hamel

9. Demonizing Madness: Mental Disorders as Deus Ex Machina in Nollywood Movies

Kolawole Olaiya

10. Masculinity, Disability, and Empire in J.M. Coatzee's Waiting for the Barbarians

Saloua Ben Zahra

 

PART D: EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, AND CAREGIVING

11. Addressing Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fostering Inclusive Education of Children with Disabilities

Serges Djoyou Kamga

12. Inclusive Education and Cultural Relevance

Angi Stone-MacDonald and Ozden H. Pinar-Irmak

13. Youth, Women and Disability Economic Empowerment in Africa: Community Strategies to Leave No One Behind

Ntombekhaya Tshabalala, Elizabeth Ladner Babi Agbettor, and Theresa Lorenzo

14. Caregiving and Support in African Context: A Personal Perspective

Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah

 

PART E: ACTIVISM AND BARRIERS TO INCLUSION

15. So that the Stew Reaches Everybody: Women's Negotiations of Leadership and Power in Ghana's Disabled People's Organizations

Denise M. Nepveux

16. Disability Policy, Movement Activism, and the Hibernation of ACT 715

Emmanuel Sackey

17. Othering of Students with Disabilities from Participating in Sport and Recreational Activities (SARAs) in Africa: A Case of South African Universities

Desire Chiwandire

18. Rehabilitation and the Realization of Disability Rights

Serges Djoyou Kamga

 

PART F: CONCLUSION

19. A Research Agenda for African Disability Studies

                Anna Lee Carothers and Toyin Falola