A psychology in our own language: Redefining psychology in an African context

Psychology in Africa has for a long time and continues be a contentious subject. Many scholars have pointed the importance of acknowledging multiple forms of and being in the world and understanding the of understanding how people make meaning their world. The urge to understand and define the of being human in universalistic terms minimises obscures the complexities of human experiences in , space and geolocation. This paper argues for the to take the role of languages (indigenous) earnestly we are to imagine a psychology (African) that takes contexts within which it is practised and taught . Furthermore, we insist on the importance of the psychology curriculum wherein what is as legitimate at the exclusion of other forms of becomes challenged.