Though social work as a profession is based on the mission of social justice and vested in non-discriminatory policies, it has historically been (and continues to be) deeply entwined with the maintenance of the nation-state, permeated with colonial ideologies, and rife with patterns of structural racism in different contexts across borders (Gray et al, 2016;Stanley, 2020). There have been increasing calls for deeper examinations of the complicity of social work in systems of oppression, specifically by examining its carceral, colonising and discriminatory practices, to gain better understanding of how social work praxes construct experts and ways of knowing (Michalsen and Williams, 2019;Dettlaff et al, 2020;Pease, 2023). Many of these critiques go beyond calls for social justice; they insist on fundamentally decolonising social work education and practices (Fortier and Hon-Sing, 2019;Khan, 2019; Sewpaul and Hendrickson, 2019), while others demand that social work profession in its current form must be abolished because it is too complicit with oppressive systems (Richie and Martensen, 2020;Maylea, 2021).Social work is not the only academic discipline being called into question for perpetuating colonial paradigms. While universities are highly valued centres of knowledge production, they have also long been criticised as being imbued with Whiteness, racism, androcentrism, ableism and heteronormativity (Cupples and Grosfoguel, 2018). Recent movements that seek to decolonise universities have emerged from a rich lineage of intellectual, artistic and activist resistance to Eurocentrism and colonial epistemic violence. The 2015 Rhodes Must Fall movement, for example, started as a rejection of the symbol of imperialism and evolved into a broader aim to decolonise education in South Africa (Du Plessis, 2021). Scholars such as