ABSTRACT
This chapter endeavours to develop an empirically testable hypothesis for developing impactful disability activism in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) through the strategic engagement of endogenous ideational factors, agents and structures that contextually matter. It asks questions about disability knowledge and experience, whether it can be universalized, and how precision of ontological variation could sharpen disability activism in Africa. The chapter provides an overview of disability activism in Africa within the transnational context. It argues that the numerous benefits of transnational activism, disability activism in Africa would be more effective if built around an Afrocentric ethos that takes into account existential factors of society and the experience of disability. The chapter enhances the effectiveness of disability activism in Africa. It discusses the historical foundations of disability activism in general before indigenizing disability activism in Africa.
