The paper focuses on social work education and practice into the next millennium with particular reference to Africa. It argues that as the year 2000 draws near, the most insurmountable challenges for social work education and practice in Africa are likely to emanate from issues that traditionally have not been regarded as falling within the domain of the social work profession. Issues falling in this category are identified as including the refugee problem, the AIDS issue, unemployment, the ecology and structural adjustment programmes. Iturges the social work profession to become aggressive and more adventurous if it is to be taken seriously and indeed as it hopes to sufficiently address the problems in a meaningful way. Social work training therefore must be made more appropriate if it is to sufficiently equip practitioners with the relevant skills and knowledge that will enable diem to meaningfully tackle these and other social challenges.
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