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Navigating Decolonial Realities in Social Work Education and Practice

Uncovering the Voices
Thembelihle Brenda Makhanya

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This book explores the enduring impact of coloniality on South African higher education, calling for transformative change. Focusing on decolonisation and epistemic justice, it examines how colonial legacies marginalise African epistemologies, languages, and identities.

This groundbreaking book explores the enduring impact of coloniality on South African higher education and calls for transformative change in curriculum, learning, and teaching. Focusing…
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This groundbreaking book explores the enduring impact of coloniality on South African higher education and calls for transformative change in curriculum, learning, and teaching. Focusing on decolonisation, transformation, and epistemic justice, it critically examines how colonial legacies shape institutional cultures and marginalise African epistemologies, languages, and identities.
Using decolonial, Afrocentric, and African philosophical frameworks such as Ubuntu the book bridges theory and praxis to explore the Africanisation of knowledge and the politics of identity in higher education. Through a social work lens, it engages with processes of deconstruction, reconstruction, and reimagination essential for creating inclusive, contextually relevant universities.
Combining rigorous scholarship with compelling critique, this book contributes to global conversations on epistemic freedom, Indigenous knowledge systems, and postcolonial education. It is an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in Social Work, education, and African studies seeking to advance liberatory pedagogies and socially just academic practices.

Dr Thembelihle Brenda Makhanya is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Social Work at the University of Mpumalanga, South Africa. She holds a BSW, MSocSci, and PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa where her doctoral study explored (de)coloniality in social work education. Her research centres on decolonial theory, Afrocentricity, Ubuntu, student wellbeing, and family dynamics.
An emerging award-winning scholar, she received recognition from the NIHSS and was a runner-up for ASASWEI’s “Emerging Social Work Educator of the Year 2021.” She is Chairperson of the Imbewu Youth Empowerment Centre, South Africa supporting rural learners’ access to higher education.
Dr Makhanya is active in international networks like the Ubuntu Research Group and has presented in Kenya and India on decolonial and sustainable community development. She teaches across critical areas of social work and remains committed to dismantling colonial legacies, affirming African-centred knowledge, and advancing social justice in education and practice.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6737-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6737-1
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-17

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6738-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6738-8
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Subject Codes:

  • BIC: JNFN, JNKC, JNM
  • BISAC: SOC025000, SOC062000, SOC056000, EDU040000, EDU015000, EDU020000
  • THEMA: JNFK, JNDG, JNM
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