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Title: | Kwame Nkrumah, disability, and rehabilitation in Ghana, 1957-66 |
Author: | Grischow, Jeff D. |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537) |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 179-199 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | people with disabilities social policy reintegration employment 1960-1969 |
About person: | Francis Nwia Kofie Nkrumah (1909-1972) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/23017675 |
Abstract: | This article examines a rehabilitation programme for disabled Ghanaians developed by Kwame Nkrumah's government between 1961 and 1966. Arising at a time when Nkrumah was moving away from welfarism in favour of a 'big push' for industrialization, rehabilitation sought to integrate disabled citizens into the national economy as productive workers. Nkrumah's programme was preceded by a colonial rehabilitation project during the 1940s for disabled African soldiers. The colonial initiative drew heavily on the British model of social orthopaedics, which equated citizenship with work. This philosophy resonated with Nkrumah's vision of national development based on full employment. Although its economic focus had troubling implications for citizenship and welfare, Nkrumah's rehabilitation programme was unique among newly independent African states, and it arguably produced a positive legacy. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |