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This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of social
work, social welfare, and social development in Nigeria from a
postcolonial perspective. It examines the historical development of
social work and social welfare and the colonial legacies affecting
contemporary social welfare provision, development planning, social
work practice, and social work education. Against this historical
backdrop, it seeks to understand the position of social work within
Nigeria’s minimalist structure of welfare provision and the
reasons why social work struggles for legitimacy and recognition
today. It covers contexts of social work practice, including child
welfare, juvenile justice, disabilities, mental health, and ageing,
as well as areas of development-related problems and humanitarian
assistance as new areas of practice for social workers, including
internally displaced and trafficked people, and their impact on
women and children. It seeks to understand Nigeria’s
ethnoreligious diversity and indigenous cultural heritage to inform
culturally appropriate social work practice. This book offers a
global audience insight into Nigeria’s developmental issues and
problems and a local audience – social science and human service
researchers, educators, practitioners, students, and policymakers -
a glimpse of what’s possible when people work together toward a
common goal. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of
social work, development studies and social policy.
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