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  1. Introduction Culture, Human Rights, and Social Work: Colonialism, Eurocentricism, and Afrocentricity
  2. 1 Disrupting Popular Discourses on Ilobolo: The Role of Emancipatory Social Work in Engendering Human Rights and Social Justice
  3. 2 Nigerian Marital Cultural Practices and Implications for Human Rights
  4. 3 Socio-Cultural Constructions of Intensive Mothering and Othermothering: Domestic Workers’ Experiences of Distance Parenting and their Conceptualization of Motherhood
  5. 4 Misrecognition of the Rights of People with Epilepsy in Zimbabwe: A Social Justice Perspective
  6. 5 Harmful Cultural Practices against Women and Girls in Ghana: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work
  7. 6 The Intersection of Culture, Religion (Islam), and Women’s Human Rights in Ethiopia: Private Lives in Focus
  8. 7 The Implications of a Patriarchal Culture for Women’s Access to “Formal” Human Rights in South Africa: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Survivors
  9. 8 Child Marriage Among the Apostolic Sects in Zimbabwe: Implications for Social Work Practice
  10. 9 “Everybody Here Knows This, If You Want to Go to School then You Must Be Prepared to Work”: Children’s Rights and the Role of Social Work in Ghana
  11. 10 Human Rights and Medicalization of FGM/C in Sudan
  12. 11 Cultural Dimensions of HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence: A Case of Alur and Tieng Adhola Cultural Institutions in Uganda
  13. 12 When National Law and Culture Coalesce: Challenges for Children’s Rights in Botswana with Specific Reference to Corporal Punishment
  14. Conclusion: Emancipatory Social Work, Ubuntu, and Afrocentricity: Antidotes to Human Rights Violations
  15. List of Contributors
  16. Index
  17. Author Index
  18. Subject Index

AFRICA: MISSING VOICES SERIES

Timothy Stapleton, Professor, History, University of Calgary

ISSN 1703-1826 (Print) ISSN 1925-5675 (Online)

This series addresses issues and topics that have been overlooked in political, social, and historical discussions about Africa.

No. 1 ∙ Grassroots Governance?: Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean
Edited by D.I. Ray and P.S. Reddy · Copublished with the International
Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA)

No. 2 ∙ The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging
Edited by Wisdom Tettey and Korbla Puplampu

No. 3 ∙ A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa
By Joan G. Fairweather

No. 4 ∙ New Directions in African Education: Challenges and Possibilities
Edited by S. Nombuso Dlamini

No. 5 ∙ Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society
Edited by Allan Charles Dawson

No. 6 ∙ The Land Has Changed: History, Society and Gender in Colonial Eastern Nigeria
By Chima J. Korieh

No. 7 ∙ African Wars: A Defense Intelligence Perspective
By William G. Thom

No. 8 ∙ Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance,
and Development
Edited by Donald I. Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, and Tacita A.O. Clarke

No. 9 ∙ The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948–2000
By Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu

No. 10 ∙ Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana By Linda Kreitzer

No. 11 ∙ Secession and Separatist Conflicts in Postcolonial Africa
By Charles G. Thomas and Toyin Falola

No. 12 ∙ The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World
Edited by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga

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