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
