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      • Zahia Marzouk (1906 – 1988)
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  • AAEM
  • Acculturation
  • Action Research
  • Adinkrahene
  • Adinkrahene
  • Africa
  • Africa attire
  • Africa-centred
  • African
  • African-centred or Afrocentric research
  • 'African descent'
  • African diaspora
  • African Dream
  • Africanism
  • Africanist
  • African renaissance
  • African research methodology (ARM)
  • African social work
  • Afrikology
  • Afriture
  • Afrocentrist
  • Ageing
  • Ahmed Ben Bella
  • Aid
  • Akhenaten
  • Akoma
  • Amílcar Cabral
  • Ananse ntontan
  • Ananse ntontan
  • André Matsoua
  • Art
  • Asante
  • Asase Ye Duru
  • Assimilation
  • Ayampatapo
  • Ayika
  • Ba
  • Babekazi
  • Baliano
  • Bantu
  • Bato
  • Bese Saka
  • Biako ye
  • Black people
  • Boa me na me mmoa wo
  • Bomoto
  • Bulamu
  • Buluggin ibn Ziri
  • Case management
  • Casework
  • Casework Child/children
  • Chama
  • Changamire Dombo
  • Charwe Nehanda
  • Charwe Nehanda
  • Cheikh Anta Diop
  • Chief Theresa Kachindamoto
  • Child
  • Child labour
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Cleopatra VII
  • Clients:
  • Collaborative approach
  • Collective
  • Collective research approach
  • Collectivism
  • Colonial
  • Colonising current
  • Communal
  • Community
  • Community analysis
  • Community-based
  • Community-centred approach
  • Community-determination
  • Community development
  • Community development organisation (CDO)
  • Community-led
  • Community projects
  • Community social work
  • Community work
  • Communiversity
  • Content analysis
  • Continental social work
  • Country
  • Creative approaches
  • Critical thinking
  • Critical thinking
  • Cultural safety approach (CSA)
  • Culturation
  • Culture
  • Dakaro
  • Dambiro
  • Dandaro
  • Dare
  • Dariro
  • Dashuro
  • Data analysis
  • Decolonial
  • Decolonial Approach (DA)
  • Decoloniality
  • Decolonisation
  • Decolonised Interviewing
  • Decolonised Literature Approach (DLA)
  • Decolonising
  • Decolonising current
  • Decolonising Literature Review (DLR)
  • Deculturation
  • Dedan Kimathi
  • Denkyem
  • Developed community
  • Development
  • Developmental:
  • Developmental approach
  • Developmental research (DR)
  • Developmental social services
  • Developmental social work
  • Dialogue Approach
  • Dihya (Kahina)
  • Disability
  • Disorders of sex development (DSD)
  • Duafe
  • Ecological social work
  • Edward Mutesa II
  • Electronic or computer-aided analysis
  • Empowering
  • Empowerment
  • Empowerment or capability research approach
  • Entrepreneur
  • Environment
  • Environmental
  • Environmental approach
  • Environmental approach
  • Environmental social work
  • Ethic
  • Ethical
  • Ethical research 
  • Experiential method
  • Experimental approaches
  • False conservation
  • Family
  • Family analysis
  • Family-determination
  • Family-determination
  • Family father
  • Family mother
  • Fatma Emam Sakory
  • Fawohodie
  • Fela Kuti
  • Fieldwork
  • Fihankra
  • Framework
  • Framework analysis
  • Framework gender
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Fufu
  • Fundi
  • Funtunfunafu
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Gender
  • Gerontology
  • Gimuntu
  • Girmamawa
  • Global North
  • Global social work
  • Global South
  • Griot approach
  • Griot approach
  • Group analysis
  • Group social work
  • Growth-oriented project
  • Gye Nyame
  • Hadza
  • Haile Selassie I
  • Harmful female genital rituals (HFGR)
  • HFGR
  • Homehold
  • Houari Boumédiène
  • Household, Family or Community Oriented Research (HOFACOR)
  • Human drainage
  • Hunhu, unhu, botho or ubuntu
  • Hwemudua
  • Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG)
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  • Imbeleko model
  • Impairment
  • Imperialism
  • Imvelo
  • Income
  • Indaba
  • Indigenisation
  • Indigenised
  • Indigenising
  • Indigenous
  • Indigenous research methodology (IRM)
  • Individualism
  • Individualistic
  • Individual social work
  • Insider research method
  • In-situ primary analysis
  • Institutionalisation
  • Institutionalisation
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  • Intergenerational
  • International
  • International social work
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  • JJ Roberts
  • John Mbiti
  • Jomo Kenyatta
  • Joshua Nkomo
  • Julius Nyerere
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  • Kaleb of Axum
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  • Kiondo concept
  • Kujitoa
  • Kurutsa
  • Kush
  • Kushava
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  • Kuumba (mentoring)
  • Kuumba Method
  • Kuumbana
  • Kuumba: (Swahili; Shona, Zimbabwe)
  • Kwame Nkrumah 
  • Land
  • Land reform
  • Laurent-Désiré Kabila
  • Livelihoods
  • Local Ethics Approach (LEA)
  • Local language approach (LLA)
  • Longitudinal analysis
  • Lungu
  • Maaya
  • Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) approach
  • Madiba syndrome
  • Mansa Musa
  • Manual analysis
  • Marcus Garvey
  • Marriage
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  • Massinissa
  • Mate Masie
  • MAU MAU
  • Medemer
  • Menelik II
  • Methods for research utilisation
  • Methods of data discussion
  • Mitumba
  • Mixed approaches
  • Mixed Methods
  • Modibo Keïta
  • Mtoto
  • Mukando
  • Multiculturation
  • Munyai
  • Munyai approach
  • Musha
  • Muthu
  • Mutoro
  • Mutunchi, iwa or agwa
  • Muzungu
  • Mzee
  • Mzima/phelele
  • Na banye
  • Nana Yaa Asantewaa
  • Nana Yaa Asantewaa
  • Narrative approach
  • National social work
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Nguni languages
  • Nhaka
  • Nhakanomy
  • Nile-Sahara people
  • Non-Communicable Conditions
  • Non-verbal consent (NVC)
  • Notes
  • Nyame Dua
  • Nyatsimba Mutota
  • Nyika
  • Obafemi Awolowo
  • Obuntu
  • Okinka Pampa Kayimpa
  • Older persons
  • Omoluwabi or Omoluabi
  • Omundu
  • Ooni Luwo Gbagida
  • Orature
  • Orature Approach (OA)
  • Orature review
  • Owia Kokroko
  • Pan-Africanist
  • Participant analysis
  • Participation
  • Participatory Action Research (PAR)
  • Patrice Lumumba
  • 'People of colour'
  • 'Person of Colour'
  • Philosophy
  • Policy
  • Postcolonial
  • Poverty
  • Practice-based
  • Prayer method
  • Primary analysis
  • Process analysis
  • Proverbs
  • Pula
  • Queen Nzinga
  • Race
  • Racism
  • Re-analysis
  • Recolonising current
  • Reflection
  • Refugee
  • Refugee journey
  • Regional social work
  • Relational-collective-timed approach (RTCA) of data analysis
  • Relational research approach or paradigm
  • Religion
  • Researcher analysis
  • Research process
  • Reserve land (reserves)
  • Responsibility
  • Responsible research approach (RRA)
  • Reviere’s African-centred procedure of achieving ‘validity’ or ‘reliability’
  • Rifa
  • Rights
  • Robert Mugabe
  • Roora
  • Rural
  • Sam Nujoma
  • Samora Machel
  • Samori Touré
  • Sandawe
  • Sankofa
  • Sankofa methodology
  • Scared places and spaces approach
  • Secondary analysis
  • Self-praise or self-poetry or praise poetry
  • Seretse Khama
  • Seva
  • Shaka Zulu
  • Shosholoza
  • Shosholoza
  • Side-by-side analysis approach
  • Side-by-side approach or collaborative research
  • Simunye
  • Sobhuza II
  • Social capital
  • Social development
  • Social enterprise
  • Social exclusion
  • Social Media Reactions (Sentiments) Approach
  • Social work
  • Social work interventions
  • Social work practice
  • Socio-economic
  • Socio-economic development
  • Spiritual
  • Spiritual analysis
  • Stanlake Samkange
  • Steve Biko
  • Stokvel
  • Stories Approach
  • Stories research approach (
  • Story method of analysis
  • Sundiata Keita
  • Tarajio Hasara (Disadvantage Expectations Theory)
  • Tariq ibn Ziyad
  • Task method
  • Thabo Mbeki
  • Thematic analysis
  • Theory
  • Theory-building approach
  • The San Method
  • The San Method
  • The total agreement technique (TTAT)
  • Thomas Sankara
  • Thutmose III
  • Toto
  • Tree of Life Approach
  • Trimurti
  • uAfrica or huAfrica
  • uAfrica religion
  • Ubudehe
  • Ubudehe
  • Ubumwe
  • Ubuntu-informed
  • Ubuntuist
  • Ubuntu justice
  • Ubuntu (noun)
  • Ubuntu or botho
  • Ubuntu (philosophy)
  • Ubuntu research approach (URA)
  • Ubuntu social work
  • Ubunyarwanda
  • Ubutwari
  • Ugali (fufu)
  • Uhaki
  • Uhuru
  • Ujamaa
  • Ujamaa
  • Ujamii
  • Ujima - (Swahili)
  • Ukama
  • Ukuru
  • Ukweli
  • Umachobane
  • Umhuri
  • Umoja
  • Umuco/isiko
  • Umuganda
  • Umuganda
  • Umunthu or ubuntu
  • Unethical
  • Unyanzvi
  • Urban
  • Urithi
  • Uroho
  • Ururami: (Shona, Zimbabwe), Ubulungiswa(Nguni), Ubutabera (Kinyarwanda, Rwanda)
  • Usawa
  • Usawa
  • Ushavi
  • Usman dan Fodio
  • Utlulivu
  • Utu, munto or mondo
  • Utungamiri (Shona)
  • Utu, obuntu or bumuntu
  • Uwongo
  • Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
  • Value
  • Value
  • Vazungu
  • Vazungu
  • Vene
  • Village
  • Village social work
  • Visual Methods
  • Vumuntu
  • Walks method
  • Wangari Maathai
  • Watoto
  • Wazawa
  • W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Welfare
  • Western
  • Whiteness
  • Woreda
  • Work party research
  • Yusuf ibn Tashfin
  • Zunde
  • Zunde raMambo
  • Zunde raMambo
  • Zungu

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