This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa, and what this means in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The importance of meeting the needs of people with disabilities is highlighted specifically in several Sustainable Development Goals as well as being emphasised as a cross-cutting issue across all the goals. Over 1 billion people are estimated to be living with disabilities and 80% of this population live in the Global South, many within Africa. This book argues that within this context, religion must be considered, as people with disabilities often turn to religion for solace in confronting the daily struggles and pains that they can face. Drawing on multiple disciplinary lenses, this book reflects on how traditional/indigenous, Abrahamic, and other African minority religions and philosophies interact with disability, and how this relates to the sustainable development goals. The book demonstrates how religions in Africa conceptualize, imagine, or re-imagine disability in the context of key themes such as gender, ecological justice, health, poverty, education, employment, entrepreneurship, and migration.
Overall, the book invites researchers from across the social sciences to consider how African religious, theological, and philosophical ideas can help towards the inclusion of people with disabilities in the 2030 development agenda in Africa.
This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Overall, the book invites researchers to consider how African religious, theological, and philosophical ideas can help towards the inclusion of people with disabilities in the 2030 development agenda in Africa.
1. Introduction: Religion, Disability and Sustainable Development in
Africa SDGs, Disability and Religion In the context of Poverty and
socio-cultural factors
2. Positive Perspectives on Disability in the Old
Testament: Pathways to Breaking the Disability-Poverty Nexus and Leaving
No-One Behind in Africas Quest to Achieve Sustainable Development
3.
Disentangling Disability in Africa: A Panoramic view from critical disability
studies on Religion, Disability and Poverty in Africa
4. The African Network
for Evidence-to-Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) on its quest to be a Regional
Disability Network guided by African wisdom
5. Socio-Cultural Perspective on
Disability as a Barrier to Sustainable Development in Africa SDGs, Disability
and Religion in the context of health and wellbeing
6. Exploring the
intersection of disability and religion in the context of Covid-19 and
sustainable development in Africa
7. Understanding Epilepsy in The Context of
African Indigenous Religions
8. Care Development: Botho Ethics, Ageing and
Disability
9. Sustainable Development Goal Achievements for People With
Disabilities In Africa: Role Of Christian-Muslim Religions In Tanzania SDGs,
Disability and Religion in the context of the disciplines
10. An examination
of the relationship between disability and the law and religion: The
Zimbabwean Disability Practice
11. Eco-Justice and Disability Inclusion in
Lusaka, Zambia: Towards an African Womens Theology of Disability
12.
Religion, Disability and Education in Africa: Perspectives from Uganda
13.
The Interplay of South African Indigenous Religions, Disability and
Sustainable Development Goals: Reconceptualizing Disability in Inclusive
Education SDGs, Disability and Religion in the context of Gender
14.
Disability, Gender-based violence and Development in Africa: The Case of
Eswatini
15. Women with Disabilitys Access to Sexual Reproductive Health and
Well-being in Nairobi, Kenya: Towards a Theology of Belonging
16.
Transformative Work of Pentecostal Groups in Addressing Gender-Based Violence
against People Living with Disability in Nigeria
17. Obstetric Fistula - A
disability that affects the health and well-being of women: Reflections from
the Malawian Context
Dr Chioma Ohajunwa is Senior Lecturer at the Africa Centre for Inclusive Health Management, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, and also worked at the Division of Disability and Rehabilitation Studies, Global Health, Stellenbosch University. Her work is in the areas of disability, spirituality, Indigenous knowledge, wellbeing, decoloniality, and, more recently, how these inform an inclusive framework for health and wellbeing within the African context. She is published locally and internationally.
Kudakwashe AK Dube is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Africa Disability Alliance and has over 30 years of experience designing, managing, evaluating, and monitoring development and disability programmes with international and grassroots movements. He is also chair of trustees of ADD International, which fights for independence, equality, and opportunities for disabled people living in poverty, alongside organisations of disabled people.
Ezra Chitando serves as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. He is also Extraordinary Professor, the Desmond Tutu Centre for Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
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