Benue State University, Makurdi

Restatement of International Legal Regimes towards Inclusive Education and Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities in the African Continents

Paul Adole Ejembi,* Christopher Hia**, and Matthew Atonko***

Abstract

This article appraises the framework for inclusive education under the auspices of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006. It also examines the extant African regime in the context of inclusive education for persons with disabilities under the aegis of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa. The discourse reviews theoretical approaches and polemics on the subject of disability particularly within the purview of African pedagogy. The article enunciates strategies that would engender inclusive education and accessibility for beleaguered persons with disabilities in the continent. The article employs the qualitative research methodology. The research finds that persons with disabilities are often marginalized and have limited access to education. The article recommends that the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and other relevant instruments should be recalibrated and implemented in order to foster inclusive education and accessibility for the benefit of persons with disabilities in Africa.

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