There is an undeniable desire for African-centred psychology in Africa, certainly in South Africa. This is the desire to return to and learn to appreciate the history of the work done by African scholars on the continent and in the diaspora. It's a desire stimulated by feelings and perceptions of alienated expertise. It arises from the question, what does it mean to be a highly qualified professional educational, clinical, child, social, counselling, developmental, cognitive, cultural, or any other kind of psychologist you can think of, to be invited to conferences around the world to share your expertise, when in your gut you feel that yours is a body out of place, an impostor, that you are an alien not entitled to be there?

An alienated expert is a mimic. Alienated expertise means the expert is not the originator of the knowledge he or she professes.

The implication of all this is that there is an imperative for you to build – in psychology, in your lecture rooms and departments, in your consulting rooms, in your books and articles and films, in your activism and psychological art, and in the spaces in which you work and interact – a more welcoming home. You are compelled, unless you want to remain enslaved by Euroamerican ideas, to liberate your mind and work and practices from the colonial and apartheid master's gaze. To build an authentic African psychology. To strengthen African-centred psychology coming out of African countries, by building on the history of African thought (as well as non-African thought which challenges the injustice ferried around the world as part of the global hegemony of Euroamerican-centrism).