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47 - An offshore model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2019

Kopano Ratele
Affiliation:
University of South Africa (Unisa)
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The received Euroamerican psychology that is taught in African universities was not meant to serve the interests of the majority of the people. It was an offshore, or extraverted, body of knowledge, largely serving the interests of the foreign or local dominant group. The dominance of an offshore model of psychology may be one reason why we have little concerning Africa in psychology. This is the case even though we have large psychology classes, numerous conferences, thriving therapy practices and well-paid psychology professors in universities in countries like South Africa. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2013: 5) has argued that

one of the strategies that have sustained the hegemony of the Euroamerican-constructed world order is its ability to make African intellectuals and academics socially located in Africa and on the oppressed side to think and speak epistemically and linguistically like the Euroamerican intellectuals and academics on the dominant side. This trap has made it very difficult for African intellectuals and academics to sustain a robust and critical perspective of Euroamerican hegemonic knowledge and the asymmetrical power relations it enables.

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The World Looks Like This From Here
Thoughts on African Psychology
, pp. 100
Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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