A basic idea, and yet so consequential: the term ‘African’ in African psychology achieves its highest aim if it has sunk into the depths of the speaking subject's subconscious. I do not have to say, this is my way of seeing the world. Seeing the world from here has become a subconscious habit through a paradoxical process of consciousness-raising.

Rarely are words ever enough; I am painfully aware of this. It is perhaps unsatisfactory to simply tell you that African in African psychology is most powerful when it reaches the level of the taken-for-granted; when we have managed, as individuals or groups, to forget what we were taught to see. People quite often forget who they are, and poetic, enchanting, musical words are seldom all they need. Is it not obvious, then, what is required? We must build shiny modern monuments to the gods of Africancentredness. Create university departments and research centres where developing ‘ways of seeing from Africa’ is a core value and mission. And why not entire universities? Erect graceful temples, great and small, to the idea. Make objects sculptural, visual and tactile in a multitude of forms and shapes which express the idea of a world centred in Africa in so many diverse ways. Produce different tools, tests and techniques. That is what we ought to do.