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

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Toyin Falola

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Jun 26, 2021, 6:07:04 AM6/26/21
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https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781580469715/disability-in-africa/

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Contents

PART A: INTRODUCTION

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

                Toyin Falola and Nic Hamel

  1. Disability Studies: A Disciplinary Overview

                Toyin Falola, Anna Lee Carothers, and Nic Hamel

 

PART B: THEORIZING DISABILITY IN AFRICA

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

Maria Berghs

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

Fikru Negash Gebrekidan

  1. Disability in Africa: A Cultural/Religious Perspective

Mary Nyangweso

  1. Disability and Cultural Meaning-Making in Africa

Kathryn Linn Guerts

 

PART C: REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS

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

Ernest Cole

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

Nic Hamel

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

Kolawole Olaiya

  1. Masculinity, Disability, and Empire in J.M. Coatzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

Saloua Ben Zahra

 

PART D: EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, AND CAREGIVING

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

Serges Djoyou Kamga

  1. Inclusive Education and Cultural Relevance

Angi Stone-MacDonald and Ozden H. Pinar-Irmak

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

Ntombekhaya Tshabalala, Elizabeth Ladner Babi Agbettor, and Theresa Lorenzo

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

Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah

 

PART E: ACTIVISM AND BARRIERS TO INCLUSION

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

Denise M. Nepveux

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

Emmanuel Sackey

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

Desire Chiwandire

  1. Rehabilitation and the Realization of Disability Rights

Serges Djoyou Kamga

 

PART F: CONCLUSION

  1. A Research Agenda for African Disability Studies

                Anna Lee Carothers and Toyin Falola

 

Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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Jun 26, 2021, 6:37:09 AM6/26/21
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Assensoh, Akwasi B.

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Jun 26, 2021, 6:46:52 AM6/26/21
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SIR Toyin:
Congratulations on such a very useful publication! Our refereed
Journal (Journal of African & Asian Studies of The Netherlands 
published by Brill in The Netherlands) has promptly ordered a 
review copy, and our Libraries will later place orders, as usual.

A.B. Assensoh
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Journal of African & Asian 
Studies (Brill).


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Congratulations.

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Congratulations on different abilities.

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TF.,
Congratulations for the new book. 
Segun Ogungbemi. 

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SIR Toyin:
Congratulations on such a very useful publication! Our refereed
Journal (Journal of African & Asian Studies of The Netherlands 
published by Brill in The Netherlands) has promptly ordered a 
review copy, and our Libraries will later place orders, as usual.

A.B. Assensoh
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Congratulations, Maigida!

Malami

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tunde jaiyeoba

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Jun 27, 2021, 12:29:49 AM6/27/21
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Big congratulations Sir, Alagba, Prof TF!!!

This is loaded as usual!!!

More grease, more ink, more Terra bytes to your output!!!




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Head, Department of Architecture
Faculty of Environmental Design and Management
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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Adeshina Afolayan

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Jun 27, 2021, 12:29:49 AM6/27/21
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This is a great addition to scholarship. Congratulations!


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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Jun 27, 2021, 9:17:23 AM6/27/21
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An overdue consideration of a neglected stratum of African societies.

Congratulations!


OAA



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Michael Afolayan

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Jun 28, 2021, 8:53:53 AM6/28/21
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Impressive. Keep it up, Ojogbon Agba!
MOA

Harrow, Kenneth

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Jun 28, 2021, 9:02:42 AM6/28/21
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i just saw an outstanding film dealing with people made handicapped due to fighting in kisangani back in the early 2000s. strongly recommend it: Downstream to Kinshasa, dieudo hamadi, icarus.  (2020)
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