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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.

Exploring African Relational Ethic of Ubuntu for Inclusion and Solidarity in the Humanitarian Field (2022)
Digital Artefact
Imafidon, E. Exploring African Relational Ethic of Ubuntu for Inclusion and Solidarity in the Humanitarian Field

This paper seeks to explore the nature and implication of African relational moral theory as captured in the Ubuntu concept for the humanitarian field, in general, and the humanitarian strand of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), in particular. Ubu... Read More about Exploring African Relational Ethic of Ubuntu for Inclusion and Solidarity in the Humanitarian Field.

Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E., Iyare, A. E., & Abudu, K. U. (2022). Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions. In J. O. Chimakonam, E. Eiteyibo, & I. Odimegwu (Eds.), Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy (281-300). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70436-0_18

Ageing as a natural process leads one gradually to a life’s stage where one becomes frail and elderly. In this life’s stage, due primarily to the wearing out of the body system, a number of health-related challenges arise. Such may include weakening... Read More about Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions.

African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2022). African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient. In A. Agada (Ed.), Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy (175-187). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78897-1_11

This chapter affirms the importance of the ethno in African moral discourse with particular reference to bioethical discourse. It begins by showing that the deductions of moral theories – normative, meta or applied – from African thought are made p... Read More about African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient.