Learning from traditional knowledge: Basotho Indigenous epistemology of disability

In this chapter, I reflect on learning from traditional knowledge based on the Basotho Indigenous epistemology of disability. African Indigenous communities provide lens for understanding disability from their diverse African contexts. Traditional Ecological Knowledge provides a seedbed of alternative knowledge that balances the Euro-western hegemony on disability. This chapter challenges the disproportionality of epistemologies of disability and proposes the Basotho Indigenous epistemology of disability as an alternative knowledge ecology that perceives disability from the Botho/Ubuntu ethics of care. The chapter is a reflection on how the Basotho Indigenous epistemology of disability can contribute to the global understanding of disability. It is a clarion call to acceptance of alternative knowledge systems from the global south.