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For most of Nigeria’s political history, the 35 million Nigerians who live with disabilities have occupied a familiar position in the country’s political landscape: they appear in party manifestos as a group to be served, they are mentioned in speeches as a constituency to be considered, and then they are largely absent from the rooms…
There is a moment, somewhere between the diagnosis and the prescription, where the healthcare system fails deaf patients in Nigeria with a consistency that is so ordinary it has stopped being noticed. The doctor asks a question. The patient cannot hear it. The patient tries to explain what they feel. The doctor cannot understand them….
At a media roundtable held in Abuja on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, disability rights advocates in Nigeria did something that does not happen often enough in African policy spaces: they sat down with journalists, opened the government’s own commitments document, and went through it line by line, pointing out what had been promised, what deadline…
Kenya passed one of the most progressive disability laws on the African continent in May 2025. It was celebrated. It was described as transformative. International development partners called it a turning point. And then, as so often happens in the space between the signing of a law and its implementation, the celebration faded and the…
There is a version of Africa’s digital future in which artificial intelligence expands access to healthcare for communities that have never had a doctor, in which voice-activated interfaces give blind users full control of financial services for the first time, and in which local language AI tools finally make government information accessible to every citizen…
Status: Open Now | LOI Deadline: June 21, 2026 | Regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia, Pacific Island Countries | Funder: Disability Rights Fund (DRF) The Disability Rights Fund has officially opened its 2026 grant round. The application portal is live today, and the deadline for submitting a Letter of Interest (LOI) is Sunday,…
