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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the circumstances in which people with mental retardation live in Africa. The chapter describes a number of strands of research that have the potential to enhance the understanding of those circumstances. It also discusses the scope of formal services currently existing in selected African countries that cater to the health, educational, and vocational needs of persons with mental retardation and their families. Some potential growth points and pressing needs for research are identified. The vast majority of the people of the central region share a set of distinctively African physical characteristics but their societies vary greatly with respect to their indigenous languages, religion, and other cultural practices. The intervention-oriented activity is much more attractive to national governments, nongovernmental service organizations, and international funding agencies in the African region, with respect to not only mental retardation, but also more generally with respect to the human sciences than fundamental research designed to clarify the nature of phenomena. |
