What causes all the confusion regarding Africancentredness in psychology?

I have already mentioned the usual suspects: economic domination, colonial attitudes, racism, marginalisation.

The generous part of my being thinks the confusion around African psychology and African-centred psychology may be due to plain old lack of education and obfuscation.

And then, at different moments, in various ways, among individuals within the groups that have been at the receiving end of Euroamerican psychology, I encounter self-delusion, feelings of personal power in people's own little dominion, or lack of imagination perhaps. Not every little bit of the confusion and lack of fervour for African-centred psychology flows out of misunderstanding, colonial sentiments and contemporary anti-black racism.

Yet there is little doubt in my mind that some of the apparent confusion is really about prejudice and hypocrisy. Both arise from coloniality and the discrimination that springs from a deeply embedded racism, in institutions and persons. It would be a grave error to believe that colonial and racist structures and attitudes are things of the past. I am concerned that, above all, for a certain category of students and teachers and professionals, the cause of the confusion begins with how we imagine African psychology as a whole – that is to say, what we imagine when the words ‘African psychology’ are uttered, what is African and what is psychology in African psychology, what are its boundaries and horizons, and what are its internal and necessary differences.