The Basics of Developmental Social Services
On the occasion of World Social Work Day, this blog focuses on developmental social services. The importance of this theme…
Category: Development
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Kenule Saro-Wiwa and Shell Company: The legacy of exploitation and advocacy for development in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Kenule (Ken) Saro-Wiwa’s work shows how multinational companies like Shell (British company) have continued harmful practices from the direct colonial…
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Promoting Sustainable Development: CJCU’s IPSD Program Empowers African Students
By Yuvan Sankar I’m Yuvan Sankar, a creative and editorial board member of the Owia Bulletin at the Africa Social…
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Chagua vs. AGOA: Rwanda’s Second Hand Clothes and Shoes Trade Standoff with the US and the Battle for Economic Sovereignty
Rwanda ended up being banned from a trade deal with the US called AGOA – for raising tariffs to discourage…
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo speech about UN’s structural flaws, slave trade and illicit flow of funds out of Africa
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in 2023, His Excellency President Nana Akufo-Addo made these important points: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxrZ9J5AYZly5nNNIuc2djaJqD0gscmfi2?si=SHDbSW7Md-z2wfb- Implications for…
Poverty is being eradicated in knowledge-economies, yet Africa is creating economies centred on borrowed religion and corruption
The video and text below came from a television editorial by Anthony Afolo of New Africa Broadcasting Notwork (NABNTV) ….
Integrated Musha/Nyumba Theory of Socio-economic development
Socio-economic development studies are crucial for development al social work, which has been promoted as the best approach to social…
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Key Points and Actions from Wazee Day of Older Persons Webinar, 2023
Cite as: Association of Schools of Social Work in Africa and Africa Social Work and Development Network (2023). Key points…
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Disputed elections and challenges of the democracy project in Africa
Voting in Africa – colonial or liberating
Sankarism – Thomas Sankara’s idea of development and implications for social work
Image source. Sankarism refers to the ideologies of Thomas Sankara, a Burkinabé military officer, revolutionary and Pan-Africanist. Sankara was Burkina…
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