ABSTRACT
The second chapter frames how we engage concepts of disability and citizenship in Africa through dance as an embodied practice via phenomenology. It traces the importance of representation and stories for disability, and the ways in which artists have used different media to critique issues raised by postcolonial disability scholars in their work. It then situates contemporary dance both on the continent and in terms of disability intersectionally, before widening out to discuss integrated dance in Africa. Finally, it analyses the intersections between integrated dance, risk and the politics of the everyday, understood as how individuals’ sociocultural lives respond to structural attempts, be these social, political or governmental, to organise and control how they live, and how this approach to the everyday can be used to circumvent these structures.
