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      • Charlotte Makgomo-Mannya Maxeke (1871-1939)
      • Zahia Marzouk (1906 – 1988)
      • Regina Gelana Twala (1908-1968)
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  • AAEM
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  • Family-determination
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  • Family mother
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  • Fufu
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  • Gender
  • Gerontology
  • Gimuntu
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  • Global North
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  • Griot approach
  • Griot approach
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  • Human drainage
  • Hunhu, unhu, botho or ubuntu
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  • Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG)
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  • Madiba syndrome
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  • Secondary analysis
  • Self-praise or self-poetry or praise poetry
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  • Simunye
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  • Social work
  • Social work interventions
  • Social work practice
  • Socio-economic
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  • Spiritual
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  • Stokvel
  • Stories Approach
  • Stories research approach (
  • Story method of analysis
  • Tarajio Hasara (Disadvantage Expectations Theory)
  • Task method
  • Thematic analysis
  • Theory
  • Theory-building approach
  • The San Method
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  • The total agreement technique (TTAT)
  • Toto
  • Tree of Life Approach
  • Trimurti
  • uAfrica or huAfrica
  • uAfrica religion
  • Ubudehe
  • Ubudehe
  • Ubumwe
  • Ubuntu
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  • Ubuntu justice
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  • Ubuntu research approach (URA)
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  • Ukama
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  • Ukweli
  • Umachobane
  • Umhuri
  • Umoja
  • Umuco/isiko
  • Umuganda
  • Umuganda
  • Umunthu or ubuntu
  • Unethical
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  • Urban
  • Urithi
  • Uroho
  • Ururami: (Shona, Zimbabwe), Ubulungiswa(Nguni), Ubutabera (Kinyarwanda, Rwanda)
  • Usawa
  • Usawa
  • Ushavi
  • Utlulivu
  • Utu, munto or mondo
  • Utungamiri (Shona)
  • Utu, obuntu or bumuntu
  • Uwongo
  • Value
  • Value
  • Vazungu
  • Vazungu
  • Vene
  • Village
  • Village social work
  • Visual Methods
  • Vumuntu
  • Walks method
  • Watoto
  • Wazawa
  • Welfare
  • Western
  • Whiteness
  • Woreda
  • Work party research
  • Zunde
  • Zunde raMambo
  • Zunde raMambo
  • Zungu

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