Activating Arts to Understand Disability in Africa - Inclusive Explanations

While Disability Studies has become more diversified in recent years, contemporary debates still favour the Northern Hemisphere, ignoring the lived experience of disabled people in much of the global South.

List of contents

0.Introduction: The Power of Inclusive Explanations for Disability. 1.Ng'ano cia marimû: Disability, African Literature and Narrative Prosthesis. 2.Five Lives: Alternative explanations for disability in contemporary South Africa. 3.Can We Do Human Together? Exploring Personhood and Disability Through Two African Indigenous Enabling Frameworks. 4.Reframing disability from a Bomvana perspective: Lessons learned from Indigenous peoples of KwaBomvane. 5.Positioning Disability as a Majority Issue in Development: An African Feminist Approach to Statistics and Proverbs. 6.Voices in Hostage. 7.Unearthing Lived Experiences: Integrating disability, arts, and social work in Africa. 8.Participatory theatre and the re-conceptualization of disability in Cameroon: Findings from a Disability and Inclusion theatre workshop. 9.The Fall Artist. 10.Strength, Potential, Expressivity, and Creativity: Music Therapy at a School for Persons with Disabilities in Sudan. 11.Accessible Literature. 12.Plight, perception and social responses to disabled beggars in Aminata Sow Fall's The Beggars' Strike. 13.Intertextuality, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives regarding Albinism in Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory. 14.Surrender into Dance: Three Poems.

About the author

Charlotte Baker Lancaster University, UK.
Elvis Imafidon School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Kobus Moolman University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Emelda Ngufor Samba University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Imafidon Baker
• Assisted by: Baker Charlotte (Editor), Imafidon Elvis (Editor), Moolman Kobus (Editor), Samba Emelda Ngufor (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032751993
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275199-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, History of art / art & design styles, Personal & public health, History of Art, Disability: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education, The arts: general topics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies