Disability is not Inability

:: Were Masakhalia verses Wickliffe Osundwa in Mumias.


Phytalis who is currently working with Leonard Cheshire International and was formerly with various local and international organisations including as an International Advisor Disability - Rights and Advocacy UNDP/NPAD. He was recently quoted as asking the leading presidential aspirant to tell the disability community what he plans to do for disability community.

“Seek ye the political kingdom first and all else will follow”, urged Kwame Nkrumah, the Ghanaian independence hero. At the time Ghana was in the thick of the liberation struggle.

Disease, ignorance and poverty were of course ravaging Ghana like the cursed plaque, but the man thought all these issues could not be squarely assaulted, until and unless the political equation of this former British colony was comprehensively fixed.

Seek ye the political kingdom first and all else will follow”

:: PWDs need to understand politics.

:: Politics

:: Disabled people themselves should have the interest and passion to want to aspire for politics

:: What needs to be done for “Seek ye the political kingdom first and all else will follow”.

:: Are there any benefits to political participation by disabled people?