Nigeria competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, sending a 31-member strong delegation that won 13 medals, 7 of which were gold.

These include beliefs that they acquired their disabilities because their parents were witches or they are wizards.

As such, there is often tremendous cultural pressure for people with physical disabilities to remain hidden and out of the public eye.

[2] This is the context to which Nigerian Paralympians engage both society and sport internally, in their own country.

[4] The Nigerian Paralympic delegation left the Games having won more medals than their Olympic counterparts.