Africanisation of Disability Rights: An Analysis of The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Right of Persons with Disabilities

Abstract

This article makes an analysis of the CRPD, illustrating how the Global South has departed from the Global North by introducing legislative provisions that speak to Africa and relate to the African people as peculiar people who have distinct histories and cultures. This paper discusses the extent, if any, to which the approach to disability has been Africanized as opposed to strict adherence to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (hereinafter the CRPD). The article concludes by finding that the ACHRPD has provisions that speak directly to the African context and that the UNCRPD is largely a framework that has provided a skeleton framework that was developed to suit the Global North context.

Keywords: Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Right of Persons with Disabilities, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), African disability laws.

DOI: 10.7176/JAAS/82-08

Publication date:December 31^st 2023