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49 - Satisfied with alienation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2019

Kopano Ratele
Affiliation:
University of South Africa (Unisa)
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Even though it has become clear to me what is to be gained from building an African-centred psychology, it bears repeating: it is curious that a great many psychologists in Africa have not fully recognised the need to do so. Could I be wrong, and there is nothing to be gained from freeing ourselves from the domination of Euroamerican psychology in Africa? If there is a world to be gained from disalienation, from psychological freedom from colonial, white, Euroamerican-centralising psychology, what to make of this curious state of affairs in which many of us have got lost? How else can we explain a situation in which people seem satisfied with their own alienation?

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The World Looks Like This From Here
Thoughts on African Psychology
, pp. 102
Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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