ABSTRACT
In Africa, children are considered valuable assets, a blessing, and an inheritance. However, in the same context, children with disability are usually perceived as cursed, which makes the birth of a child with disability bad news instead of good news. Children generally experience discrimination and marginalization in African cultures, and moreover, the ordeal of children with disability is severe. It is established that the society at large and churches in particular are inaccessible to children with disability. This chapter employs the Afrocentric-Children Paradigm to reflect on the plight of children with disability in the light of sociocultural constructions of disability and their spiritual formation within humanitarian work (a focus on World Vision International). The chapter further argues that children with disability in Africa experience spiritual lockdown.
Keywords: children with disability, African cultures, spiritual lockdown, The Love of God, Afrocentric-Children Paradigm
