The African Journal of Disability (AJOD) serves as a repository for cutting-edge, peer-reviewed research in all fields of disability studies and rehabilitation sciences in a uniquely African context. AJOD encourages scholarly exchange between all disciplines and academics from both the developing and developed worlds, to work towards the betterment of human development and its practices across the continent.

The journal is indispensable for interfaces between disability, poverty, and practices of exclusion and marginalization, and offers an engaging insight into the growth of these disciplines from a distinctly African perspective. It seeks to pubilsh innovative research and clinical reviews from an African context:

• Disability studies as an emerging field of enquiry
• Rehabilitation, including vocational and community-based rehabilitation
• Community development and issues related to disability and poverty
• Disability-related stigma and discrimination
• Inclusive education
• Legal issues, policy issues, human rights issues and advocacy issues
• The role of arts and media in relation to disability
• Disability as part of global transformation agendas
• Disability and postcolonial issues
• Globalisation and cultural change in relation to disability
• Environmental and climate-related issues as linked to issues of disability
• Disability, diversity and intersections of identity
• Disability and the promotion of human development

AJOD provides the following key features:

• Editorials
• Original articles
• Review articles
• Opinion papers
• Interactive communications
• Scientific letters
• Case studies
• Conference reports
• Community papers
• Book reviews