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Social Welfare and Social Work in Southern Africa

by Ndangwa Noyoo
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781928480761
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Sun Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Sun Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 338
  • Original Price: GBP 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 540 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Social Work

This book is written by Southern African social welfare, social work, social development, social security and social policy academics, practitioners and advocates who have varying degrees of experience. The authors who contributed chapters to this book added their perspectives to ongoing debates about academic areas in the region. Thus, the book's primary objective is to discuss the development of social welfare and social work in Southern Africa. In doing so, it endeavours to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on social welfare and social work in the region. The chapters are examined through different theoretical lenses and historical perspectives.


In this book, African scholars, academics, and practitioners provide a deep and critical reflection of social welfare, social work, and related disciplines during the colonial and post-colonial era, a period characterised by a deliberate move by Africa's political administrations to focus on nation-building and to attempt to make Africa a global player. Despite being endowed with rich natural resources like minerals; agriculture; and solid family and extended family life, the continent is weak globally. Furthermore, the book focuses on the pre-colonial period - a golden thread running through the chapters. The book discusses the colonial era when Western countries' capture and oppression of Africa characterised the continent's history.


This book is an appropriate publication at this point in our history; a resource that can be used to generate appropriate narratives and questions within the social welfare and social development sector, particularly on delivery, education and training.

Noyoo, Ndangwa: - Ndangwa Noyoo is an associate professor and the former head of the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. He previously worked for the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as an associate professor in the Department of Social Work and before that, for the South African Government, as a senior social policy specialist/chief director in the National Department of Social Development. Before this, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He has published widely in the context of Africa and Southern Africa in the areas of social policy, social development, and related fields. He has presented papers at various symposia in Africa and abroad. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree from the University of Zambia (UNZA). He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France from 2005-2006.

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