ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the disability models, to locate the human rights model of disability, before explaining the relationship between disability, the African agenda and the sustainable development agenda. It also discusses the term ‘disabled people’ has been adopted instead of persons with disabilities in keeping with a human rights approach. The African Union Commission has affirmed the definition in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and ensured that the legal rights of inclusion in terms of education, employment and political participation are included. In development work and aid, when disability and human rights are mentioned, this refers to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The social model views disability as a socially created problem and a matter of the full integration of individuals into society.
