Contributors

Ziblim Abukari is an Associate Professor and the Program Director of the BSW program in the Department of Social Work at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, US.

Alice Boateng is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Work, University of Ghana. She completed her PhD at Brown School of Social Work, St Louis, Missouri, US. Her research focuses on women and children’s issues.

Paul Bukuluki, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Uganda. He is a Social Worker and Medical Anthropologist. His specialty is social norm change research and programming in child protection and prevention of violence against women and children.

Julie Drolet is Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary’s Central and Northern Alberta Region in Edmonton. Her research focus is in International social work, disaster recovery and climate change, as well as social development, social protection, immigrant settlement and integration, and social work field education. She has many years of social work practice and policy experience in Africa.

Mel Gray, Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of Newcastle, Australia has an extensive, internationally recognised track record in social work research and scholarship. Her work embraces the diversity of perspectives in International Social Work, decolonising methodologies, and the shared struggle for effective indigenous, culturally relevant social work interventions. Her roots in Africa, and ongoing quest for an Afrocentric perspective, culminated in The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa (Routledge, 2017).

Linda Kreitzer, PhD is a Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana (University of Calgary Press, 2012), which highlights her PhD work in Ghana. She has co-edited two other books. She is a member of the Association of Schools of Social Work in Africa. Her current research pertains to curriculum issues in Africa.

Ronald Luwangula is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Uganda. He holds a PhD in Children’s Social Protection Rights from Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria, a Master’s in Social Work and Human Rights from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a Bachelor of Social Work and Social Administration from Makerere University, Uganda.

Abel Blessing Matsika is an independent consultant based in Zimbabwe. He is currently finalising his PhD thesis on Intimate Partner Violence and Social Work in Zimbabwe.

Manqoba Victor Mdamba is a qualified, registered Social Worker, working in Cape Town for the NGO Yabonga, working with families and children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. He completed his Bachelor of Social Work at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has volunteered for various social work initiatives, such as the social work military and social work students’ associations. 

Munyaradzi Muchacha is a qualified and registered social worker, with over six years of practice experience, working in Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, and Australia. He has previously taught at the University of Zimbabwe.

Jacob Rugare Mugumbate started teaching social work at Bindura University in Zimbabwe and now teaches at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He trained in Zimbabwe and has a PhD from the University of Newcastle. He is involved in epilepsy work in Africa and globally. 

Dr. Ronard Mukuye holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University of Vienna, Austria, and an MA in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands. He is currently the Country Programme Support Officer for the United Nations Office for Project Services (Cities Alliance) in Uganda. His main areas of research include children and childhood, culture, social protection, health, and sustainable urban development.

Juliana Naumo Akoryo is a culture, gender, intangible cultural heritage, and community development specialist. She is a founding member of the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Africa with over twenty-nine years of experience in the formulation, design, and implementation of cultural and creative industry programmes. She was the contact person for the 2003 and the 2005 UNESCO Conventions.

Tatenda Nhapi is an Independent researcher affiliated to the Erasmus Mundus MA Advanced Development in Social Work—a joint Programme between the University of Lincoln, England, Aalborg University, Denmark, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, University of Paris Ouest Nantere La Defense, France, and Warsaw University, Poland. Tatenda has published in the areas of social security, social work, and developmental social work.

Aloysious Nnyombi is a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research focus includes HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.

Poloko Nuggert Ntshwarang is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of Botswana. She holds a PhD in social work from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dr Ntshwarang’s research focus is parenting issues, child protection, family and children’s well-being, health, and gender issues. She has published on issues related to adolescents and children.

Augusta Yetunde Olaore, PhD, LMSW, is an Associate Professor at Babcock University, Nigeria, an Adjunct Professor at Azusa Pacific University, US, and the pioneering Chair of the Department of Social Work at Babcock University, Nigeria.

Israel Bamidele Olaore, PhD, is an associate professor of Educational Leadership and Religious Education. He is currently the Head of School at the Glendale Adventist Academy, US.

Tanusha Raniga is Professor in the Department of Social Work and Community Development at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She has published widely on feminisation of poverty, social protection policy, and community development.

Shahana Rasool is Professor in the Department of Social Work and Community Development at University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She has published in the area of gender-based violence, decoloniality, and help-seeking. She is the Vice-president of the Association of Schools of Social work in Africa (ASSWA).

Boitumelo Seepamore is a lecturer in the discipline of social work at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her 2018 article in the Advances in Gender Research Journal was based on the subject close to her heart—mothering and parenting within marginalised spaces and communities. She has also co-edited the Routledge Handbook on Postcolonial Social Work.

Yania Seid-Mekiye holds a PhD in social work and social development. Her research interests include gender and diversity with a particular focus on married Muslim women experiences in marital relationship. She currently works as State/Deputy Minister of Development and Administration sector at Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Ethiopia.

Vishanthie Sewpaul is Emeritus Professor at University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa and a Professor ii at University of Stavanger, Norway. She is a widely published, internationally recognised scholar and an awardee of three honorary doctoral degrees. She chaired the Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training Committee (2004), the Global Social Work Definition Committee (2014), and the Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles Taskforce (2018) on behalf of the IASSW.

Cynthia A. Sottie is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Booth University College, Canada, and a former head of the Department of Social Work at the University of Ghana. She has an MSW from West Virginia University, US, and a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Eunice Tumwebaze possesses twenty years’ experience in development and policy work, majoring in culture, gender, and community empowerment at the national and sub-national level. She has a Master of Science in equality studies from University College Dublin, Ireland.  Her research is in several areas including social norms, working mothers and parenting.