African Journal of Social Work Book 5

This book opens with a direct question: is African social work going through indigenisation or decolonisation? That question runs through the whole volume. A special group of articles on research methods argues for African approaches to knowledge production. These include the Shona concept of dare as a democratic method of data collection and the use of African social work theories in research. Social development features in work on entrepreneurship development as a method of social work practice, and cash transfers and child poverty in South Africa. Other articles cover social sector planning and sustainable delivery of social services, livelihood diversification through seasonal migration, public spaces and social integration, and indigenous social protection systems. Further studies look at child labour, child trafficking, cyberbullying, foster care and migrant returnees. Contributors write from across Africa and from Egypt, Algeria, Nepal, Indonesia and Malaysia. The book will be valuable to researchers, postgraduate students and educators who want to centre African knowledge in social work and social development.