Contents
Foreword - Bruno Druchen and Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen
Preface
Acronyms and Key Terms
Introduction: On the Importance of Deaf African Perspectives for Engaging Citizenship, Politics, and Difference - Audrey C. Cooper and Khadijat K. Rashid
Section I: Sub-Saharan Signed Languages and Perspectives
Introduction: Sub-Saharan African Signed Languages and Deaf Communities - Sam Lutalo-Kiingi and Goedele A. M. De Clerck
1. Ethics of Researching Signed Languages: The Case of Kenyan Sign Language - Julie A. Hochgesang
2. Deaf Citizenship and Sign Language Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promoting Partnership between Sign Language Communities, Academia, and NGOs in Development in Uganda and Cameroon - Sam Lutalo-Kiingi and Goedele A. M. De Clerck
3. Resistance Is Not Futile: Language Planning and Demissionization of Eritrean Sign Language - Rezenet Tsegay Moges
Section II: Politics and Difference
Introduction: Shaping Politics of Difference - Audrey C. Cooper and Khadijat K. Rashid
4. Overcoming Cultural and Linguistic Barriers to HIV/AIDS Education among Deaf People in Africa - ’Gbenga Aina
5. Deaf Women in Africa - Euphrasia Mbewe
6. Sign Language and Inclusion in Family and Community Life - Sian Tesni, Karen Heinicke-Motsch, Joseph Morrissey, and Rose Kwamboka
Section III: Citizenship
Introduction: Development, Deaf People, and Citizenship - William L. Leap
7. Adopting Human Development as the Universal Goal: Inclusive Strategies for Sociopolitical Transformation in Africa - Alem Hailu
8. To the Farm Again, Again, and Again, Once and for All? Education, Charitable Aid, and Development Projects for Deaf People in Adamarobe, Ghana - Annelies Kusters
9. Empowering Rural Deaf Citizens through Organizations and Social Movements - David R. Penna
10. Deaf Identity and Rights in Africa: Advancing Equality through the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Janet E. Lord and Michael Ashley Stein
Contributors
Index