AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

Decoloniality is gaining increasing traction in efforts to change the colonial-rooted structures and practices within global health. In Global Health Research (GHR), decoloniality challenges historical injustices, power dynamics, and epistemic injustices in research practices with reformative options. While some recent initiatives towards decolonising GHR draw on solidarity as a guiding value, there are limited works that connect decolonial conceptualisations of solidarity to decoloniality in GHR. This article links a decolonial account of solidarity from the global South to the call for decoloniality in GHR. Using a beehive allegory as an example of conceptualising solidarity in African culture, it argues that such an account has profound implications for addressing the problems of power hierarchies and epistemic injustice in GHR. Linking a decolonial account of solidarity to decoloniality in GHR helps to re-orient the logic of supremacy and promote humility. This paper considers possible objections against a decolonial account of solidarity and calls for more decolonial conceptualisations of solidarity and other values that can further drive the GHR decoloniality agenda.