Improving understandings of disability in sub-Saharan Africa
About Us
The Disability and Inclusion Africa Network aims to improve understandings of disability in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Network includes disabled persons, disabled person’s organizations, NGOs, policy makers, education and healthcare professionals, and academics.
We host regular online workshops, international events, and a biannual conference. We also collaborate on funded research projects and fund small initiatives to improve the lives of disabled persons in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Disability Inclusion Africa Project
The Network developed from an AHRC-funded project (2020-2022) led by Professor Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University, UK), Dr Elvis Imafidon (SOAS, University of London), Professor Emelda Ngufor Samba (University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon) and Professor Kobus Moolman (University of the Western Cape, South Africa).
The project explored the impact of explanations for disability on disabled persons, their communities, advocates and policy makers. These explanations may stem from assumptions and misconceptions, medical determinism, traditional, religious or supernatural beliefs.
Through events in Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa, the UK and online, collaborative research, fieldwork, and community engagement, the project explored the ways in which disability is understood by communities, civil society, international development and the academy.
The Network is taking this work forward, ensuring that the collaborative work towards improving understandings of disability started during the project continues.
