Grassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa.Many have praised the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), first adopted by the UN in 2006, as a revolutionary step towards disability rights in Africa. But how real is the progress towards equality for persons with physical disabilities, mental health difficulties, blindness, deafness or albinism? What are the barriers to the CRPD's successful implementation on the continent, and how might we enforce inclusiveness and equality among those disadvantaged? This book brings together the findings of researchers in Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa to offer grassroots' perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of achieving disability rights under the CRPD. Challenging the generally optimistic view presented to date, the contributors provide evidence-based trenchant critiques of the Convention, highlight the ways in which disability rights are interpreted in varying contexts and with different disabilities, and examine particular issues in relation to children and women. Finally, the contributors suggest ways of moving forward and achieving disability rights in Africa.

IntroductionJeff Grischow & Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy1 Framing Disability Rights within African Human Rights MovementsBonny Ibhawoh2 Legislation as a Care institution? The CRPD and Rights of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in South AfricaCharlotte Capri3 Examining the Implementation of Inclusive Education in ZimbabweTsitsi Chataika & Lincoln Hlatywayo 4 Barriers to the Implementation of Education Article 24 of the CPRD in KenyaBillian Otundo5 A Disabled Disability Movement: The Paradox of Participation in UgandaHerbert Muyinda & Susan Reynolds Whyte6 Implementation of the CPRD in Ethiopia: Grassroots Perspectives from the University of Gondar Community-Based Rehabilitation ProgrammeMikyas Abera7 Knowledge and Utilization of the CRPD and Persons with Disabilities Act 715 of Ghana among Deaf PeopleWisdom Kwadwo Mprah & Juventus Duorinaah8 CRPD Article 6 - Vulnerabilities of Women with Disabilities: Recommendations for the Disability Movement and Other Stakeholders in GhanaAugustina Naami & Joana Okine9 Assessing the benefits of the CRPD in Cameroon: The Experience of Persons with Disabilities in the Buea MunicipalityWisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku & Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah10African Ontology, Albinism and Human RightsElvis ImafidonConclusionJeff Grischow & Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy