Is it Indigenisation or Decolonisation of Social Work in Africa?
In this episode our students, Rathigga Pushparajah and Tienga Ngale interview Dr Sharlotte Tusasiirwe about her recent article titled Is it indigenisation or decolonisation of social work in Africa? A focus on Uganda. The article was recently published in the African Journal of Social Work and it can be found here:
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajsw/article/view/224731
Dr Sharlotte Tusasiirwe, born in Uganda, is an activist, social worker and educator. She gained her Master's degree in Social work and Human Rights and a PhD from Western Sydney University, Australia. Her PhD focused on decolonising social work education and practice. Sharlotte has researched how African knowledge and Obuntu/Ubuntu philosophies can inform social work, a topic discussed in the article.
Rathigga and Tienga were particularly drawn to the article as it highlighted concepts critical to anti–racist social work practice, such as decolonization and colonisation. The author explains how colonisation affected social work practice in Uganda.