Kinship care, responsibility and self-determination: exploring african individual and community rights in decolonized social work

  • This chapter explores how the notion of human rights and the practice of social care could further be embedded in an African way of life. Even though there appears to be a broad acceptance of social work as a human rights profession in many African societies, social work seems to be in dissonance with the deeply rooted cultural practice of kinship care and collective responsibility on the continent. It is noteworthy that cultural practices in kinship care and community responsibility in Africa are congruent to social work principles; however, there still remains a yawning gap between this reality in regard to social work education and practice. This chapter calls for the decolonization of human rights and social work discourses in Africa. We argue that wide-ranging culturally embedded values and collective practices should find expression in human rights and social work endeavors in Africa. This will lend itself to a deeper understanding of non-Western-oriented notions of human rights and social work, which are underpinned by community responsibility, and the principle of self-determination as a collective right.

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Author:Ndangwa Noyoo, Tanja Kleibl
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33030-8_5
Parent Title (English):Decolonized approaches to human rights and social work
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of publication:2023
Release Date:2024/03/15
First Page:77
Last Page:9
Faculties and institutes:Fakultäten / Fakultät Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften
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