Africa is embracing itself.

This volume of multifaceted counseling approaches, problems, contexts, and practices is saying just that – Africa is embracing itself.

Proudly and eloquently, it presents the case of existing practices of nurturance and support grounded in belief systems founded among people of African ancestry. Also, it shows the affinity that exists among these practices, whether indigenous or exogenous in origin.

By pulling the complex strands of the twenty contributions from all over Africa and elsewhere into a coherent unified framework, the editor, Professor Elias Mpofu, has reconfirmed his stature as an eminent African scholar in the fullest sense of the word, one with foresight, energy, tenacity, and a passion for his profession. With his vision of compiling a volume on present counseling practices for people of African ancestry, he afforded us the opportunity to look inward, to discover that there really is a “best practice” for counseling conditions, specifically for people of African ancestry. With this work, he and the other contributors laid the foundations for Africans, wherever we may find ourselves in the world, to look at each other, across borders and nations, and to discover that we have much in common, sharing counseling challenges and practices.

The rich mosaic of Africanist voices contained in this publication aimed at the subject specialist yield connectivities, inform each other, and help us to understand how the human condition, in its multicultural African expressions, can be strengthened.