I will not have the final word. Especially when we consider the future, such as what an introductory textbook on Africancentred psychology would look like – or one on social African psychology, or on neuropsychology from an African-centred perspective, or on African-centred child development, or on any other area of psychology that situates African realities, Africancentred knowledge and knowledge-making, and African lives at the centre – it is obvious that a great many more words have to come, a great deal more work is necessary.

However, in the end I return to the questions that contain the most potential for the work that must be done towards centring Africa in psychology. What does it mean to say African in African psychology is tacit? What precisely does the project of centring Africa and Africans entail? When will the time come when the majority of African students of psychology and African psychologists have overcome the enervating, even retraumatising, inferiority complexes imposed on them in relation to US and European psychology?

To say that African in African psychology should be tacit means we need to constantly remind ourselves that the world makes most sense from our own perspectives – unless we are asked, not compelled or consciously wish, to adopt the Other's perspective. I say it again to remind myself: African in African psychology is silent.

Achieving this involves conscientising yourself towards a place where you feel entitled to your body, your voice, your affective and cognitive life, your perspective. If you have ever felt that your views do not matter, now is a good day to start learning to trust what you see and feel and think.

The project of centring Africa and Africans entails learning to read any psychology text, test or tool as a thing from somewhere. There are no value-neutral textbooks. There is no study or theory that does not assume certain beliefs about the self, others and the world. You cannot, then, read anything well if you read it as from nowhere. This is what Euroamerican psychology has managed to make us forget – that it comes mainly from Western Europe and the US. All knowledge is from somewhere, made by people under specific circumstances, provoked by certain problems that exist around them. And it is only from somewhere that you can read things from somewhere.