Full Description
Kindness Through Africentricity: Living as Caring Human Beings draws on Africentric philosophy, the principles of Ubuntu, and intersectionality to offer a groundbreaking exploration of kindness within African Nova Scotian communities. This volume challenges conventional understandings by positioning kindness not only as a moral virtue, but as a powerful and transformative force rooted in cultural, communal, and historical contexts. It bridges theory and lived experience, providing a critical Africentric perspective that invites readers to consider kindness as both a personal ethic and a communal practice.
As part of the Kindness at Work series, this interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars and community leaders of African ancestry in Nova Scotia to examine kindness through educational, organizational, and cultural lenses. It offers practical strategies for implementing Africentricity in education and community contexts, while also contributing to the growing but still underexplored field of kindness in management and organizational studies. By centering African Nova Scotian voices and experiences, Kindness Through Africentricity expands the theoretical scope of kindness and reclaims it as a valuable, strategic, and culturally grounded approach to leadership, learning, and community-building.
Contents
Section 1. Education
Poem. Olóore ni oore ńwọ́ tọ̀: Kindness Follows the Kind-Hearted; Damini Awoyiga
Chapter 1. Kindness as Collaborative Commitment to African Nova Scotian Education; Késa Munroe-Anderson
Chapter 2. Community Expressions of Kindness to Support Nova Scotians of African Descent in Early Childhood Literacy; Susan M. Brigham and Sylvia Chanda Kalindi
Chapter 3. My Kind of Kindness: Kindness Through an Africentric Lens; Randy Headley and Josyl Headley
Chapter 4. Africentricity and Kindness in Adult Learning: A Relational Foundation For Teaching, Advising, and Mentoring in Post-Secondary Education; Terrence O. Lewis
Section 2. Community
Poem. Garden of Existence; Asiah Sparks
Chapter 5. On the Kindness of Mentors; George Elliott Clarke
Chapter 6. The Academic Quilt of Kindness; Wanda Taylor
Chapter 7. Kindness in Action: Exploring Africentricity, Ubuntu, and Nguzo Saba in Adult Education through the Africadian Empowerment Academy (AEA); Omolara Ogunbosi and Wanda Thomas Bernard
Section 3. Healthcare/Wellbeing
Poem. Kindness is Ubuntu; Damini Awoyiga
Chapter 8. Africentricity, Kindness, and Authentic Allyship to Address Anti-Black Racism in Healthcare; Nancy Ross, Sue Bookchin, Christine Riordan, and Wanda Thomas Bernard
Chapter 9. Journeying Healing through Kindness; Rajean Willis
Poem. Through a Child's Eyes; Lindsay Ruck
