Decolonising Awards Speech by Linda Harms-Smith: Work on decoloniality means disrupting dynamics of ongoing coloniality
Thank you so much for this honour. By affirming decolonial scholarship, and here, the small part that my work contributes,…
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Understanding Indigenous peoples of the Americas
“Seventy five million Indigenous peoples survive across the Americas today. Without colonisation and the resulting death rate of up to…
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Welcoming new blogger – Makamanzi the Unpacker
Lawrence Makamanzi, the most recent blogger for Mtandao, is a Zimbabwean social worker and public intellectual whose work spans across…
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UBUNTU VALUES AND ETHICS IN FUNDRAISING, RESOURCE MOBILISATION AND DONOR ENGAGEMENT
From welfarist and charitable to developmental and decolonial methods Cite as: Africa Social Work Network (2022). Ubuntu values and ethics…
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DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD (DAC): 16 JUNE 2022
To learn more about Day of the African Child Africa, visit this African Union (AU)’s African Committee of Experts on the…
Dedan Kฤซmathi of the Mau Mau – contribution to Kenya independence and how he was killed by the British imperialist forces during their colonial occupation of Africa
“My blood, like the heroic blood of many great Kenyans who have fallen in the course of this war, shall…
Senzeni na: the Anti-colonisation Song that Inspired Africans and its Role in Decolonising Social Work Today
Senzeni na (2005) song by Soul Brothers, South Africa. Senzeni na (1993) song with video by Albert Nyathi, Zimbabwe. Senzeni…
AFRICA’ CONTINENTAL ANTHEM BY THE AFRICAN UNION (AU): ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN SOCIAL WORK
The African anthem was composed by Ethiopian poet Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin as a poem. In 1986, it was adopted as the…
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IS A DEFINITIONAL THRESHOLD OF 18 YEARS FOR WHO A CHILD IS, PRACTICALLY APPLICABLE AND FEASIBLE?
A DISHARMONY IN CHILD RIGHTS ADVOCACY: CONTENDING FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT by Mutape J. D. S. Sithole Is a definitional…
WORLD SOCIAL WORK DAY 2022
African environmental, ecological and green social work must prioritise environmental decolonisation, repossession and justice Happy World Social Work day. WSWD…
IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE JUSTICE SYSTEM HAS IGNITED ANGER OVER COLONIAL AND STRUCTURAL INJUSTICES FOLLOWING THE JAILING OF FORMER PRESIDENT JACOB GEDLEYIHLEKISA ZUMA. What are the lessons for social work?
On 8 July 2021, former South African President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma was jailed for 15 months by the Constitutional Court…
Kenneth Buchizya Kaundaโs contribution to the philosophy of African humanism (ubuntu) and pan-African theory
Contributors: Rugare Mugumbate and Joachim Cuthbert Mumba On 17 June 2021, former Zambian president and pan-Africanist Kenneth Kaunda died in…
DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD (DAC): 16 JUNE 2021
Today we join the rest of the African region in commemorating Day of the African Child. In South Africa, 16…
แตแญ แขแซแฅแญ แ แแ แณ แซแตแญ – THERE IS SO MUCH SOCIAL WORK KNOWLEDGE IN AFRICAN PROVERBS, A LOOK AT SOME PROVERBS FROM ETHIOPIA
ድር ቢያብር አንበሳ ያስር፡፡ means when webs of a spider join together, they can trap a lion. Ethiopian people have…
History of South African Social Work – the founding role of Charlotte Makgomo-Mannya Maxeke (1871-1939)
For more about the history of social services, welfare and social work in South Africa, see https://africasocialwork.net/south-africa/ Regarded as the…
Ethiopian History of Social Work and Social Services
Acknowledgments: Andargatchew Tesfaye, 1986, Social Welfare programmes and social work education in Ethiopia and other sources The history of social…
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Ubuntu Theories
Ubuntu PHILOSOPHY Whose fault is it if no one knows about the philosophy of your grandfather and mine? Is it…
Ubuntu and Social Work Resources
Ubuntu is a collection of values and practices that Black people of Africa view as making people and their communities…
Egypt’s history of social work and social services
The history of social work in Egypt shares a lot in common with other countries. The history can be conceptualized…
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The political, legal, radical and policy role of social work in Africa
Jacob Rugare Mugumbate Political, legal, militant and policy social work diverts from the norm, it seeks to strengthen, awaken and challenge…
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