Africentricity, Kindness and Authentic Allyship to Address Anti-Black Racism in Healthcare

Africentricity, Kindness and Authentic Allyship to Address Anti-Black Racism in Healthcare

Afrocentrism

Nancy Ross, Sue Bookchin, Christine Riordan, Wanda Thomas Bernard

Kindness Through Africentricity: Living as Caring Human Beings

2026

Emerald Publishing Limited

Book chapter

English

9781805925651, 9781805925668

Restricted Access

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.

Robin Cole