This article will discuss the ways in which disability history can promote educational inclusion through learning about African disability history. This will include a discussion of the need to re-orient disabled people’s history away from narratives dominated by white northern, especially Anglo-American narratives and raising awareness of, and appreciation for, histories of disabled people in a field that is developing at a rapid pace. The following is therefore a reflection by a non-expert on disability historians whose work on varied African historical and cultural contexts is essential to underlining how disability history is global. It can be taught as such, thanks to the work of scholars and activists like those cited in this article.

Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Colonising Disability