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Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant.

Drawing on her experience as a social work instructor in Ghana with field research conducted for her doctoral thesis, author Linda Kreitzer addresses the history of social work in African countries, the hegemony of western knowledge in the field, and the need for culturally and regionally informed teaching resources and...

Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use.

Drawing on Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work as antidotes to colonial power and dehumanization, this collection challenges cultural practices that violate human rights, and the dichotomous and taken-for-granted assumptions in the cultural representations between the West and the Rest...

Sherpa in My Backpack guides undergraduate and graduate students through the difficult terrain of international exchanges and study abroad programs. It also enables faculty to be better academic Sherpas who help guide students through this process. The primary data source for this study was a Canadian/EU social work exchange funded by HRSDC and Eurasmus between four cities in Canada (Calgary, Kelowna, Montreal, and Ottawa) and four countries in the EU (Austria, Belgium, Finland, and Poland). This practical guide is divided into eight chapters. Each chapter represents a stage in the process of...