AfriNEAD Website

We are very excited to announce that AfriNEAD website is up and running (www.sun.ac.za/AfriNEAD). Thanks to Tim Gane and Debbie Byrne of Privatelable for their generous time and effort in putting together this site. Kindly log-in and be able to link with the latest...

Visit to New York

On the 23rd September 2013 there was a high-level meeting of The General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, on disability and development. I attended this meeting with Prof Leslie Swartz. We also met in this meeting with some members of the AfriNEAD core...

Appointed: New Minister

We joyously announce that one of our own — The Honourable Minister Rachel Kachaje is the new Minister of Disability and Elderly Affairs in Malawi — Rachel has been a member of the Afrinead family since 2007 and we are very proud of her achievement. Mrs...

African Journal of Disability (AJOD):

Our Journal the African Journal of Disability (AJOD) under the leadership of Professor Leslie Swartz has been growing from strength to strength. We have a supplement that is the outcome of papers that were presented in the AfriNEAD 2011 symposium that is due in March...

AfriNEAD 2014 Symposium

The Faculty of Social Science of the University of Malawi in Collaboration with the Ministry of Disability and Elderly Affairs, the Federation of Disability Organisations in Malawi (FEDOMA) and the Secretariat of the African Network for Evidence-to-Action on...

What has been happening since July 2013

As we approach the end of 2013, we anticipate forth coming events of 2014. We look forwards to ALL meeting in Malawi in November 2014 from the 3-5th for the 4th AfriNEAD symposium. Much work has been done since our last newsletter in bringing our membership list up to...