This seminar aims to critically ex­plore how dominant Western discourses shape the UNCRC and explore alternative and supplemen­tary ways of thinking about the human rights of children. Building on calls to decolonise children’s rights, the seminar presents a conceptual exercise that explores chil­dren’s human rights from an Afrocentric perspective. In an attempt to explore alternative readings of the UNCRC, Barreto’s (2018) three-folded decolonial approach to human rights is used, involving 1) taking a critical stance toward Eurocentric thinking, 2) retrieving concepts that evolved in the colonised world to think about human rights otherwise, and 3) establishing a dialogue between these two debates to move beyond colonial suppression of alternative ontologies. More specifically, the seminar explores children’s rights through the Buganda worldview of Obuntubulamu, using a selection of proverbs to critically examine a more relation­al and holistic ap­proach to thinking about chil­dren’s rights and welfare.