Locating African Feminism, Womanisms, and Nego-Feminism - Possibilities for Social Work

This chapter centres the knowledge production of Black and African women to address gender inequality. It locates African Feminisms, womanisms, and nego-feminism within a ‘think like Black’ perspective, to propose alternative ways to deal with gender power relations within the African context. These perspectives emerged from within the domain of ante-, anti-, post-, and decolonial Feminisms and present social workers access to ways of dealing with gender inequality in ways that are more appropriate to African communities. Centring African knowledges and ways of being that encourage contextual gender sensitivity is essential for appropriate and relevant social work practice in African contexts.