Access denied: Voices of persons with disabilities in Africa.

This report analyses and summarises an assessment of the accessibility of five African cities, namely Addis Ababa, Freetown, Lusaka, Kampala and Johannesburg to persons with disabilities. Besides documenting the accessibility challenges faced by persons with disabilities, manifest in the way buildings, roads and public facilitates are designed, constricted and fitted, the report also lauds progress and achievements made in that regard. The report offers a set of recommendations that would help to break the barriers that stand in the way of the socioeconomic participation of persons with disabilities, not just in the study countries but also in other countries of a similar socioeconomic context. We present this Africa-wide report with great pleasure for use in law and policy formulation, programme development and advocacy by governments, civil society organisations and development partners in your respective domains.