“I think it is quite naive to think everybody’s goal is that”: how Zambian sexual violence stakeholder perspectives complicate global health roadmaps to ‘decolonization’

This paper argues that addressing power dynamics and profit-driven motives is crucial for genuine transformation and will require a recalibration of current systems. The disparity between these factors raises critical questions about decolonization and the potential for alternative, community-focused interventions which give people agency over their liberation. The current study speaks to broader global health and development discussions by spotlighting the challenges to transformative interventions in Global Majority contexts. Confronting these challenges is essential for reshaping narratives around the implementation of decolonial roadmaps and the aspiration to community empowerment.