African Psychology The Emergence Of A Tradition Augustine Nwoye by Augustine Nwoye 9780197630174, 9780190932510, 0197630170, 0190932511 instant download after payment.

Although the need for the decolonization and diversification of the psychology degree curriculum in African universities has been recognized for many years (Holdstock, 1999, 2000; Mkhize, 2004; Nwoye, 2014, 2015a, 2017a), its urgency only attained prominence in the post-Apartheid period, the time during which there emerged unprecedented increases in the population of black students in South African universities. That experience brought into sharp focus the persistent questioning by many of these students of the appropriateness and relevance to their lives of a psychology that is exclusively Eurocentric in perspective and that, consequently, has no space to accommodate the psychology and understanding of African realities. In responding to this omission, many universities, particularly in the South and East African sub regions, took the matter seriously and called for the urgent creation and inclusion of courses and modules in African psychology in their psychology degree curricula.

This book is an attempt to respond to this need. The book brings together a coherent and organically cohesive selection of my essays, majority of them already published in premier international psychological journals on various aspects of continental African psychology understood as a postcolonial academic discipline. The book describes the raison d’être, meaning, and scope, as well as the epistemological and theoretical perspectives of African psychology. This is in addition to a section on African therapeutics that draws on publications that have appeared in the aforementioned journals from 2000 to the present. Some of the book’s chapters are new as well.