I suspect some of you reading this might have already said to yourselves, ‘Aha, he is essentialising African people. But Africans are heterogeneous.’

I could not agree more. There is no one African psychology that fits all. This is the other factor that has hindered the development of African-centred psychology. There is a view that when I say African psychology, even when I say Africancentred psychology, I refer to a singular, static view of African psychology. On the contrary, African psychology is a set of dynamic orientations. African psychology, the way I see it, is best conceived as ways of seeing, to use John Berger's (1972) notion, that are found within all of psychology, rather than as a sub-discipline of psychology. Perhaps, though, it is imperative to state that we have to find more than one way to get to the point where African-centring knowledges become a given. Perhaps, then, I have to underline that there are several orientations (to which I will return later on) that constitute African psychology.