ABSTRACT
This piece argues that contemporary Senegalese urban arts enact a radical decolonisation of disability in the public, or common, space. Explored here are the accessible arts practices of disability activism, or crip/care, in graffiti, street cinema and hip-hop in Dakar. Against a state-sponsored erasure and disavowal of disability from public spaces in combination with the neoliberal production of disability, these arts name, critique and reform crip/care in urban spaces. Here, ‘accessibility’ echoes a cultural commitment to the common (mbokk in Wolof): what is shared in the public space and what constitutes a potent form of care.
