01610nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001653003100042653001600073653001200089100001300101700001400114700002000128245007600148856012700224300001400351490000600365520103100371022001401402       2019                            d10aDisability and development10aColonialism10acontext1 aHowell C1 aLorenzo T1 aSompeta-Gcaza S00aReimagining personal and collective experiences of disability in Africa  uhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/334251167_Reimagining_personal_and_collective_experiences_of_disability_in_Africa  a1719-17350 v63 a<p>This paper explores understandings of disability in Africa through the personal and collective experiences of a group of postgraduate students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The students, as disabled people themselves or practitioners working in the field across Africa, were required to capture their understanding of disability on the continent in a poster, set as a summative assessment task. What emerges from the students' posters provides valuable insights into the complex social, political and economic factors that influence and shape the experience of disability in Africa. The paper argues that these insights are especially important to existing conceptual thinking around disability and its importance to discussions on Africa and its development. It suggests that grappling more carefully with the experience of disability in Africa brings much needed voices from Africa and the global South into the field of Disability Studies and deepens these debates in valuable and necessary ways.</p>
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