%0 Journal Article %T A defence of identity for persons with disability: Reflections from religion and philosophy versus ancient African culture %A Junior B. Musenze %A Patrick Ojok %J Archive of "African Journal of Disability". %D 2019 %R 10.4102/ajod.v8i0.490 %X Religion and philosophy follow the Hegelian dialectic, man as thesis, evil as antithesis and ideal man or God the final synthesis, locking out persons with disability stating that they don¡¯t meet the criteria of being human persons. In contrast, persons with disability were accepted in ancient Africa and their disorder was not shown as a physical handicap %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489160/