Voices of people with disabilities in Kenya have yet to influence disability services and the issues affecting their lives. This is in part due to the dominance of disability discourses from Global North contexts from which international policies on disability such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities borrow…

To insure the most accurate research, it is necessary to have teams of scientists from the culture being studied and from a contrasting culture. The indigenous members of the team provide a sensitivity to nuances of meaning and interpretations of intent of behavior that cannot easily be recognized by an outsider. The outsider team members will…