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Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project (2024)
Journal Article
Reimer-Kirkham, S., Astle, B., Ero, I., Beaman, L., Ibhawoh, B., Imafidon, E., Sawatzky, R., Tettey, W., Buyco, M., & Strobell, E. (2024). Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project. International Journal for Equity in Health, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-02064-5

Background: Persons with albinism face challenges to their wellbeing, safety, and security, ranging from vision impairment and skin cancer to stigma and discrimination. In some regions, they also face human rights atrocities including mutilation and... Read More about Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project.

Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy (2023)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2023). Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy. In E. Imafidon, M. Tshivhase, & B. Freter (Eds.), Handbook of African Philosophy (1-17). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77898-9_22-1

The chapter critically examines the fundamental and all-embracing philosophy of sub-Saharan African peoples, Afro-communitarianism or African communitarian philosophy. The chapter shows that recent theoretical scholarship on African communitarian phi... Read More about Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy.

Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition (2023)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2023). Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition. In P. Ikhane, & I. Ukpokolo (Eds.), African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge (48-59). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003182320-5

How is knowledge acquired, stored and retrieved in African places? What is the cognitive process of acquiring, learning and remembering knowledge claims about anything in African places? I proffer answers to these questions by exploring what I term c... Read More about Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition.

Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change (2022)
Book
Imafidon, E., & Baker, C. (Eds.). (2022). Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17858

The challenges currently faced by people with albinism in many African countries are increasingly becoming a focus of African writers, storytellers, artists and filmmakers across the continent. At the same time, a growing number of advocates and acti... Read More about Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change.

Introduction: Changing Narratives of Albinism in Africa (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E., & Baker, C. (2022). Introduction: Changing Narratives of Albinism in Africa. In E. Imafidon, & C. Baker (Eds.), Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change (1-14). Peter Lang

Challenging Traditional Understandings: Embedding Accurate Knowledge of Albinism in African Cultures (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2022). Challenging Traditional Understandings: Embedding Accurate Knowledge of Albinism in African Cultures. In C. Baker, & E. Imafidon (Eds.), Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change (15-35). Peter Lang

Journal Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa (2022)
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Journal Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa. Honolulu, HI

This special issue of the Review of Disability Studies consists of original articles and creative works that take seriously and explore some important aspects of sub-Saharan African perspectives on disability and their impact on understandings of dis... Read More about Journal Special Issue: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa.

African Ontology, Albinism, and Human Rights (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2022). African Ontology, Albinism, and Human Rights. In J. Grischow, & M. Mfoafo-M'Carthy (Eds.), Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa (231-246). James Currey. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800103825.011

Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Ibhawoh, B., Reimer-Kirkham, S., Ero, I., Mgijima-Konopi, I., Beaman, L., Senkoro, P., Astle, B., Strobell, E., & Imafidon, E. (2022). Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 14(3), 838-858. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huac038

Abstract Debates about legitimizing human rights in Africa have centred on making universal human rights principles relevant to local social and cultural contexts. Localizing human rights norms requires seeing human rights in terms of relevance to sp... Read More about Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa.

Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference (2022)
Journal Article
Imafidon, E. (2022). Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference. Nursing Philosophy, 23(3), Article e12393. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12393

In this study, I explore the challenges that ideological hegemonies of personhood imbibed by nurses and other healthcare workers could pose for the nursing profession, particularly in terms of inhibiting the acknowledgment of difference. Dominant or... Read More about Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference.