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Inclusive Reporting: Trailblazing disability advocate solicits community empathy not sympathy for PWDs

By Bakah Derick  For years now, Dr Angoh Kingsley has been advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities in Cameroon. The desire to enforce his competence on the subject of inclusion pushed him to study to terminal degree level in special needs education. Dr Angoh Kingsley speaking at the Sisterspeak237 workshop  Though without a fulltime job, Dr Angoh has been fronting campaigns across the country for the rights of persons with disabilities through his organization; the National Inclusive Association of persons with disabilities and the destitute. He is amongst the earliest persons to have completed a terminal degree in inclusive education in Cameroon and has been monitoring media coverage of disability issues.  “I will appreciate them (Media) for the work they do because the mind is gradually changing. What we want the society to know is what disability is all about, what the society should take us to be. We lay emphasis on the social model (disabilit