The Forum for African Psychology (FAP) was founded in 2009 as a division of the Psychological Society of South Africa. The establishment of the FAP followed long-standing debates on the object of African psychology, its definition, its status, its aims and its approaches. The FAP's founding has reignited these debates. But there is still often more heat than light produced about what African psychology is. There is confusion as to why we might or might not need to develop students and young researchers who are conscientised to be unselfconscious about their African psychological perspective.

Is it not ludicrous, a confused alien could well ask, do we need an African psychology forum in South Africa?

An answer the alien might receive is, we need such a forum because South Africa is not African enough.

Or, because the Psychological Society of South Africa is not African enough.

The question becomes, what is it to be African enough in a place like South Africa, in contrast to places like Somalia and Senegal?