1st Edition
Activating Arts to Understand Disability in Africa Inclusive Explanations
Introduction: The Power of Inclusive Explanations for Disability
Charlotte Baker, Elvis Imafidon, Kobus Moolman and Emelda Ngufor Samba
Chapter One – Ng’ano cia marimû: Disability, African Literature and Narrative Prosthesis
Faith Njahîra Wangarî
Chapter Two – Five Lives: Alternative explanations for disability in contemporary South Africa
Charlotte Baker and Joanne Bloch
Chapter Three – Can We Do Human Together? Exploring Personhood and Disability Through Two African Indigenous Enabling Frameworks
Chioma Ohajunwa
Chapter Four – Reframing disability from a Bomvana perspective: Lessons learned from Indigenous peoples of KwaBomvane
Nomvo Dwadwa-Henda, Gubela Mji and Chioma Ohajunwa
Chapter Five – Positioning Disability as a Majority Issue in Development: An African Feminist Approach to Statistics and Proverbs
Francisca Anita Adom-Opare
Chapter Six – Voices in Hostage
Kirsten Deane
Chapter Seven – Unearthing Lived Experiences: Integrating disability, arts, and social work in Africa
Kalia Kaparounaki, Mayeso Chinseu Lazaro, and Susan Levy
Chapter Eight – Participatory theatre and the re-conceptualization of disability in Cameroon: Findings from a Disability and Inclusion theatre workshop
Emelda Ngufor Samba
Chapter Nine – The Fall Artist
Kobus Moolman
Chapter Ten – Strength, Potential, Expressivity, and Creativity: Music Therapy at a School for Persons with Disabilities in Sudan
Ai Nakatsuka
Chapter Eleven – Accessible Literature
Mugabi Byenkya
Chapter Twelve – Plight, perception and social responses to disabled beggars in Aminata Sow Fall’s The Beggars’ Strike
Babatunde Adebua, Oluseun Olu-Osayom and Akinkorede Adisa
Chapter Thirteen – Intertextuality, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives regarding Albinism in Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory
Spemba Elias Spemba
Chater Fourteen – Surrender into Dance: Three Poems
Karen Lazar
Biography
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
