Decolonising and reimagining social work in Africa: alternative epistemologies and practice models

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- The dangers of a single story: an indelible need for a non-deficit story -- References -- Chapter 1: Social work in Africa: History and contemporary issues -- African social work/helping -- African environmental social work -- African community social work approach to grief and bereavement -- African child adoption approach -- African care for older people: role reversal theory -- African social work with families (mediation and domestic violence) -- Religion and spirituality-sensitive social work -- African mental health and suicide prevention mechanism -- Social work education and practice challenges in Africa: empirical evidence -- Other challenges social work is facing in Africa -- Brain drain -- Absence/lack of a strong association or organisation to oversee social work education in Africa -- Critique and limitations of Western social work in the West -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2: Examining approaches proposed to free social work from Western colonial dominance: Indigenisation and decolonisation -- Indigenisation -- Issues that cannot be fixed by indigenising only -- An alienating Eurocentric curriculum and narrow conceptualisation of social work -- Undisrupted colonial thinking about knowledge production and consumption -- Colonial agenda and approach to education -- Decolonising approach to learning and teaching in action: an example -- Centring community beyond individualistic/selfish-pursuits and theoretical learnings -- Students as teachers -- Teaching the indelible need to decolonise -- Disrupting 'othering' of non-Western knowledges and constructions of social work -- Decolonising self and mind: processes -- Questioning -- Remembering and or rediscovery -- Unlearning and re-learning to revalue.