Social Solidarity & Philanthropy in African Contexts Social Solidarity & Philanthropy in African Contexts

dc.contributor.authorKilama, Dennis
dc.contributor.authorHerzog, Patricia Snell
dc.contributor.authorKing, David
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-07T16:44:46Z
dc.date.available2025-04-07T16:44:46Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractWithin Western contexts, philanthropy has been conceptualized as formal and organizational, with less emphasis on its informal contours. This paper identifies social solidarity as crucial to understanding philanthropy in African contexts. The first section explores concepts of philanthropy, such as reciprocity and cooperation. Second, recognizing solidarity as a key aspect of philanthropy, we review how social solidarity has been theorized and studied. Third, we illustrate how philanthropy in Kenya and Uganda is embedded within specific contexts. Philanthropy can be found in horizontal (formal), vertical (informal), and hybrid forms. Alongside formal philanthropy, efforts to benefit others in Africa often emerge informally as mutual aid and collective mobilization. Through attending to African contexts, we assert that a broader focus on social solidarity can broaden the who, how, and why of philanthropy.
dc.identifier.citationKilama, Dennis, Patricia Snell Herzog, and David King. 2025. “Social Solidarity & Philanthropy in African Contexts.” The Journal of Social Encounters 9(1):110–23. doi: 10.69755/2995-2212.1334.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/46868
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.69755/2995-2212.1334
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectSolidarity
dc.subjectphilanthropy
dc.subjectubuntu
dc.subjectharambee
dc.subjectokutta omukago
dc.subjectKenya
dc.subjectUganda
dc.subjectAfrican contexts
dc.titleSocial Solidarity & Philanthropy in African Contexts Social Solidarity & Philanthropy in African Contexts
dc.typeArticle
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