Disability

My name is Fatima Sahra Ahmed. I'm a mother of three, and two of them happen to be children living with special-needs disabilities. I have a five year old son living with cerebral palsy, and then I have a one and a half year old…

I am Dr Stanley Nwachukwu. I am from Umudioka Ukwu in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State. I am currently the Chairman of the Joint National Associations of Persons with Disabilities, Imo State chapter, and the President of…

26-year-old Jeannette Uwimana has become the first deaf contestant to take part in Rwanda's national beauty pageant.

Malebogo Molefhe is a trailblazing basketball player from Botswana. The only girl in a game played by boys, she was called the 'tigress' and rose to be captain of her country's first ever women's national basketball team.  But off the…

Anne Wafula-Strike was the first wheelchair racer from Sub-Saharan Africa to compete at the Paralympics, when she represented Kenya at the 2004 Games in Athens - and has now become a symbol of change, in British society and beyond, as a…

Founder of Lincell Technology, Lincoln Wamae is a self-taught engineer who makes electric wheelchairs from recycled parts for the disabled in Githurai, Kenya. Though he started out building tricycles, he noticed that people living with…

Francis Mugwanya, a Ugandan is challenging the attitudes and views towards people living with disabilities in local communities across his country. In Uganda, people who live with disabilities are often stigmatised due to…