The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual forum for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to the human rights of persons with disabilities.

It is also a source for country-based reports as well as commentaries on recent developments in the field of disability rights in the African region.

The African Disability Rights Yearbook (ISSN: 2413-7138) publishes peer-reviewed contributions dealing with the rights of persons with disabilities and related topics, with specific relevance to Africa, Africans and scholars of Africa.

The Yearbook appears annually under the aegis of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.

The Yearbook is an open access online publication

EDITORS

  • Charles Ngwena
    Convening Editor, Professor of Law, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
  • Heléne Combrinck
    Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, NorthWest University (Potchefstroom)
  • Willene Holness
    Associate Professor, School of Law, College of Law and Management Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Serges Djoyou Kamga
    Professor, Faculty of Law, University of the Free State
  • Nkatha Murungi
    Acting Director, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria

Assistant editors 

  • Enoch Chilemba
    Head of Department, Faculty of Law,Chancellor College, University of Malawi
  • Elizabeth Kamundia
    Assistant Director, Research, Advocacy and Outreach Directorate, Kenya
    National Commission on Human Rights
  • Dianah Msipa
    Manager, Disability Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
  • Innocentia Mgijima-Konopi
    Atlantic Fellow, South Africa
  • Louis Oyaro
    Consultant, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law

Assisted by

  • Sabeeha Majid
    Disability Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
  • Kate Painting
    Attorney and legal researcher

International advisory board

  • Tsitsi Chataika
    Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Zimbabwe
  • Luke Clements
    Professor, School of Law, Leeds University, United Kingdom
  • Therese Degener
    Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, Germany
  • Anna Lawson
    Professor, School of Law, Leeds University, United Kingdom
  • Janet Lord
    Senior Researcher, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard University
  • Christopher Mbazira
    Professor, Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Uganda
  • Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo
    World Bank (serving on the Advisory Board of the African Disability Rights Yearbook in her personal capacity)
  • Bonita Meyersfeld
    Professor, Director, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Lawrence Mute
    Lecturer, School of Law, University of Nairobi; Member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission Working
    Group on Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities, and Chair of the African Commission’s Committee for the
    Prevention of Torture in Africa
  • Michael Ashley Stein
    Executive Director, Harvard Law School
    Project on Disability, Harvard University; Professor, William & Mary Law School, United States
  • Gerard Quinn
    Professor, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland, Ireland
  • Monica Mbaru
    Justice of the Labour Court, Kenya