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34 - Defining by affirmation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2019

Kopano Ratele
Affiliation:
University of South Africa (Unisa)
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Summary

Ten things you ought to know about African-centred psychology:

  • African-centred psychology is about seeing.

  • African-centred psychology is about language.

  • African-centred psychology is knowledge that begins with an inward-looking process, with speaking not about yourself but about the world as you have come to know it.

  • African-centred psychology is a reawakening, a road towards emancipation, a project that encompasses emotional, cognitive, cultural, political and economic attitudes and practices.

  • African-centred psychology is a call to rid yourself of the shackles of intellectual servitude to Euroamerican-centred knowledge.

  • African-centred psychology is the antithesis of oppressive knowledge about Africa and Africans.

  • African-centred psychology is about consciously and intelligently placing Africa at the centre of your psychological work.

  • African-centred psychology is attentive to history.

  • African-centred psychology is resistance.

  • African-centred psychology is a position in psychology, not something outside of it, even though it can exceed received psychology, even though it has to push beyond the boundaries of Euroamerican-dominated global psychology by studying topics of significance to people in Africa, producing therapeutic techniques that work for the greatest number of people in Africa, and teaching psychology about Africa.

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    The World Looks Like This From Here
    Thoughts on African Psychology
    , pp. 82
    Publisher: Wits University Press
    Print publication year: 2019

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