ABSTRACT
This chapter offers contributions as to how health humanities international (HHI) might engage and develop within African contexts to elicit and develop the health humanities practices embedded therein. In imagining HHI as a collaborative development tool in Africa, the work of Paulo Freire (1970) is foregrounded to illustrate a provisional philosophy, framework of practice, and desired social and cognitive outcomes of health humanities in Africa (HHA). In addition, a contribution of “feasible utopias”—inspired by the work of Barnett (2011)—illuminate the potential ontologies of HHA across the continent. The chapter closes with a brief case study (Mbah, 2019) that explicates the importance of the university in local and community development and how HHI can act as a cohesive tool, bridging the gaps in communication, knowledge, and practice between the peoples and the academy, to contribute to ongoing social, cultural, physical, and epistemic development of African peoples.
